]> <hi rend="bold">Excerpt from the Diary of Henry A. London, Fall 1864:</hi> Electronic Edition. London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918 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 Amanda Page First Edition, 2005 ca. 13K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text

 <hi rend="italics">True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North Carolina</hi> written by Lindemann, Erika Henry Armand London Papers (#868-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Excerpt from the Diary of Henry A. London, Fall 1864 London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918 2 pages, 2 page image 1864 Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Call number 868-z (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.

The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.

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.

 Library of Congress Subject Headings Erika's vocab English Latin Examples of Student Writing/Diary and Notebook Excerpts Education/UNC Enrollments and Finances 2005-05-19, Amanda Page finished TEI/XML encoding. Document Summary

An excerpt from London's account book gives his expenses for the Fall 1864 session, when board cost $200 a month.

 Excerpt from the Diary of Henry A. London, Fall 18641 Expenses from July 22nd to Dec 3rd 1864

July 23rd For two months board $400.00 " 25th For moving 5.00 " 26th " cutting hair 1.00 " " " Servant hire 20.00 " " " Tuition &c 130.00 " 30th " Washing 50.00 " " " Watermelon 1.00 " " " Seeing the Quadroon 2.00 " " " Postage & box 0.75 " " " German Grammar 1.75 Aug 6th " Watermelon 2.00 " 9th " Patching Boot 4.00 " 12th " Room rent 7.50 " 17th " Watermelons 3.33 " 25th " Epsom Salts 1.00 " 27th " Contingent 5.66 " 31st " Mending Coat 1.00 Sept 10th " To "Doc" 2.66 " " " Judge Battle 100.00 " " " Dialectic Society 6.66 " 20th " Mending Pants 3.33 " 30th " Lead Pencil 2.00

[Expenses from July 22nd to Dec 3rd1864] Oct 1st For Epsom Salts $1.00 " " " Cutting hair 1.00 " 4th " Board 200.00 " 20th " Wood (3 horse-load) 15.00 " 26th " Board 285.00 Nov 21st " Society account 6.00 " " " Ground-peas 5.00 " 23rd " Contingent 7.00 " 28th " Clock 25.00 Total $1295.64

1. Henry Armand London Papers, SHC. The leatherbound ledger of 112 numbered and alphabetically tabbed pages measures 4 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches. It is inscribed "Henry A. London. JrΔΨ/ Pittsboro N.C./Born March 1st 1846/Class of 1864-5/ Dialectic Society/Prof. Undecided/ 'Perseverando vincam' /Duck/ Miss B. M...../ Wilmington/ N.C." A table of contents appears on the verso of the title page. Entries begin on July 22, 1864, and end on November 28, 1864. The diary also records expenses for the 1864-65 academic year, monies received in 1869, the dates of letters written and received between July 22 and December 1, 1864, thermometer temperatures for 1867, and notes on a lecture on oxygen dated August 26, 1864. A second hand has listed professors' names and nicknames inside the back cover of the diary. The list of expenses excerpted appears on pages 100 and 101.