<hi rend="bold">Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, May 31, 1850:</hi> Electronic Edition. Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892 Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Bari Helms Text encoded by Risa Mulligan First Edition, 2005 ca. 7K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L. Swain, May 31, 1850 Alex J. Davis 1 page, 1 page image 1850 Call number 706 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-07-29,</date> <respStmt> <name>Risa Mulligan</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc02-69"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"><pb id="unc02-69-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name type="person" rend="yes" key="pn0003045" reg="Davis, Alexander Jackson" id="AJD"> Alexander J. Davis</name> to <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry " type="person" rend="yes">David L. Swain</name>, <date>May 31, 1850</date></head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000729" reg="New York" type="place" rend="yes">N. Y.</name> <date>May 31, 1850</date></dateline> <salute> Gov. <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry " type="person"> Swaine</name></salute> <salute>Dear Sir:</salute></opener> <p>I hasten to send you the design for your Alumni Hall. I was obliged to redraw the whole, but the result has been to improve the plan, so as to make it such as would be creditable to any University, as a specimen of classical taste, or to its general character, and proportions, whatever defects there may be in the details, or execution.</p> <p>I shall send a specification and some other drawings with the roll or portfolio (to <name key="name0000934" reg="Raleigh, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Raleigh</name>) on the Lunatic Asylum, in a few days, as I now go about to prepare the same without delay. Please say to any member of the lunatic committee that I shall send early next week, by post, a plan of the foundations of the center building, which the workmen will first want to dig and lay stone by.</p> <closer> <salute rend="center">In the mean time I remain<lb/> Yours respectfully and truly</salute> <signed> <name type="person" key="pn0003045" reg="Davis, Alexander Jackson">Alex J. Davis</name> </signed> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <p>The two capitals to the columns of your Hall I wish to have carved <hi rend="underscore">here</hi> with <hi rend="underscore">foliage of maize</hi>; <hi rend="underscore">wheat and tobacco</hi>; and the shaft should be <hi rend="underscore">reeded</hi>, with or without a bare as I shall determine hereafter.</p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>