<hi rend="bold">Letter from Charles W. Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, November 12, 1795:</hi> Electronic Edition. Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804 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 Sarah Ficke First Edition, 2005 ca. 11K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Charles W. Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, November 12, 1795 Charles W. Harris 2 pages, 2 page images 1795 Call number 40005 (University Archives, 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>2005-11-11,</date> <respStmt> <name>Sarah Ficke</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc05-06"> <body> <div1 type="letter"> <pb id="unc05-06-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person" rend="yes">Charles W. Harris</name> to <name key="pn0000683" reg="Harris, Charles" type="person" rend="yes">Dr. Charles Harris</name>, November 12, 1795</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Chappel Hill</name> <lb/><date>Nov. 12<hi rend="sup">th</hi> 1795</date> </dateline> <salute>D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Sir,</salute> </opener> <p>I wrote to you some time ago, since which nothing of importance has occurred in our business. Our <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">trustees</name> are not likely to do much during the meeting of the assembly. The more I know of their affairs & of my own dispositions & qualifications — the more I am determined against engaging in their business for life — I of late made an effort to procure some law books & Motherby but was disappointed — I will again make another attempt at <name key="name0000867" reg="Philadelphia, PA" type="place">Philadelphia</name> when I have collected a little more money — With my father I send an extract of Lavater's Phisognomy & hope you will<pb id="unc05-06-p02" n="2"/>accept of it & let my father & the rest of our family read it — It is a book which has afforded me much amusement & I hope some real improvement — It appears to me, because I am not well enough acquainted with the science, that his observations are often vague & uncertain — But whatever uncertainty there may be in it — I am fully convinced that it is well worth the attention of a young man who in life may have all characters to deal with & ought early to begin to distinguish them —— I have sometimes thought that Motherby's Dictionary might not at this time be so agreeable to you or useful — I would take pleasure in procuring any others if you would only take the trouble of mentioning them — If you send me no advices of this kind I will order <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/> book which I first intended — I am more <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/> sensible of the advantages of which my reading on such subjects with you is likely to bring me & tho' I did not study them in that particular manner which I might, yet some general ideas remain strongly impressed on my mind which gives me a pleasure in, & a taste for a further improvement in them. Give my kindest respects to <name key="pn0003086" reg="Harris, Sara Harris" type="person" rend="yes">Aunt Sally</name> & believe me your most sincere friend.</p> <closer> <signed> <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person">Cha<hi rend="sup">s</hi> W Harris</name> </signed> <name key="pn0000683" reg="Harris, Charles" type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Cha<hi rend="sup">s</hi> Harris</name> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <p>I have not been able to write as I would wish. I have been all the time with M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person" rend="yes">Ker</name> & my father who are comparing their religious creeds —M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person">Ker</name> & M<hi rend="sup">rs</hi> <name key="pn0000899" reg="Ker, Mary" type="person" rend="yes">Ker</name> present their compliments to you & <name key="pn0003086" reg="Harris, Sara Harris" type="person">Aunt</name> — & assure you that we often think of you.</p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>