Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
(#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Title of document: Letter from Dabney Cosby to David L. Swain,
May 11, 1846
Author: Dabney Cosby
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The bearer
Albert comes up to help his bro. do the
Plaistering in the halls. I have told him to Examine the sand to be used, not
knowing whether the work is begun or not, & to procure such as in the
judgment of him and
Osborne will make the best work.
You may rely on what he tells you, and If I mistake not they will
show you firstrate work, his Plaistering and rough casting here has preference
to any done in this part of the state.
Respy Yrs
Dabney Cosby
It will be some 12 or 16 days before I can get released here.