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Title: Letter from Richard H. Lewis to Exum Lewis II,
September 24, 1825: Electronic Edition.
Author: Lewis, Richard Henry, 1806-1857
Editor: Erika Lindemann
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the
electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Erika Lindemann
Images scanned by
Mara E. Dabrishus
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 10K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American
South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-05-12, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Part of a series:
This transcribed document is part of a digital collection, titled True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North Carolina
written by Lindemann, Erika
This transcribed document is part of a digital collection, titled True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North Carolina
written by Lindemann, Erika
Source(s):
Title of collection: John Francis Speight Papers (#3914), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Richard H. Lewis to Exum Lewis II,
September 24, 1825
Author: Richard H. Lewis
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 3914 (Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
Topics covered:
Education/UNC Curriculum
Education/UNC Enrollments and Finances
Personal Relationships/With Family Members
Examples of Student Writing/Letters
Education/UNC Curriculum
Education/UNC Enrollments and Finances
Personal Relationships/With Family Members
Examples of Student Writing/Letters
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Transcript of the personal correspondence. Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see Dr. Erika Lindemann's explanation under the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Transcript of the personal correspondence. Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see Dr. Erika Lindemann's explanation under the section Editorial Practices.
Document Summary
Lewis tells his father what he is studying and reports that he
needs money for firewood.
Page 1
University of N Carolina
Septr 24. 1825
Dear Father
Your kind letter announcing the convalescent state of my
affectionate
mother
, together with that of the rest of your family has
been received. And it is in conformity to the duty which I owe you, in
conformity to the affection which I bear you and in order to evince to you that
affection that I loose no time in answering it. When we consider the strong
ties by which we are bound to our parents, when we reflect on the many
obligations under which we are to them, we ought always to use our best
endeavors to be kind and obedient to them. This has ever been my principal aim,
and may it always be, dear
father, the primary object of your affectionate son. The
stream of time flows swiftly on. Half of the present session is nearly past and
when another half has gone by I shall again be
restored to the bosom of my parents. And until
the then I
shall use my best endeavors to improve my time and talents.
, together with that of the rest of your family has
been received. And it is in conformity to the duty which I owe you, in
conformity to the affection which I bear you and in order to evince to you that
affection that I loose no time in answering it. When we consider the strong
ties by which we are bound to our parents, when we reflect on the many
obligations under which we are to them, we ought always to use our best
endeavors to be kind and obedient to them. This has ever been my principal aim,
and may it always be, dear
father, the primary object of your affectionate son. The
stream of time flows swiftly on. Half of the present session is nearly past and
when another half has gone by I shall again be
restored to the bosom of my parents. And until
the then I
shall use my best endeavors to improve my time and talents.My studies at present are Spherical Trigonometry,
Blairs
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belleslettres, two
Latin lessons a week, in order to keep it fresh in
my our
mind, and Mensuration of Heights & Distances
Page 2
which we will complete in a few days, next to which we will study
Navigation and after that Surveying.
Page 2
My health I may say is unusually good and as cold weather will soon
be here, will no doubt continue good. I would be thankful to you if when the
weather becomes cold enough to have fires, you would enclose me a little money,
I shall need some to buy fire wood &c.
I remain as ever
your affectionate and
dutiful
son
Endnotes:
1.
John
Francis Speight Papers, SHC. The letter is addressed "Mr Exum Lewis/Post Master/
Mount
Prospect/
No Ca
"; the postage endorsement
reads "Chapel Hill/26 Sep} Free." Below the fold forming the
face of the envelope, along the left margin, another hand has written
"From/
R. H.
Lewis
/Septr 24. 1825."
/Septr 24. 1825."
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