<hi rend="bold">Letter from Pleasant Henderson to Walter Alves, July 14, 1799:</hi> Electronic Edition. Henderson, Pleasant, 1756-1840 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 Amanda Page First Edition, 2005 ca. 8K 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 Pleasant Henderson to Walter Alves, July 14, 1799 Henderson 4 pages, 4 page images 1799 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> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-06-23,</date> <respStmt> <name>Amanda Page</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc06-125"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc06-125-p01" n="1"/> <head> Letter from <name key="pn0000720" reg="Henderson, Pleasant" type="person">Pleasant Henderson</name> to <name key="pn0003005" reg="Alves, Walter" type="person">Walter Alves</name>, July 14, 1799</head> <opener> <dateline> <name reg="Chapel Hill, NC" key="name0000165" type="place" rend="yes">Chapel Hill</name> <date>14<hi rend="sup">th</hi> July 1799</date></dateline> <salute>My dear Sir,</salute> </opener> <p> It was only yesterday evening that I understood or had any knowledge that the Committee of visitation reported the other day on the manner of my supplying the Commons table and the nature of the report i.e. that I had so invariably furnished mutton, many of the Boys disliking the meat, that they were almost starved, & that the Bacon was too fat to be eaten; this report my dear Sir, came like a thunder bolt on me, because I knew it was founded in information false as Hell, understand me, I mean whoever gave this information, as to the mutton, uttered a false & malicious lye.<pb id="unc06-125-p02" n="2"/> Judge yourself, from the fact, which I pledge my honor is the case, that in the whole course of the Session I bought only eleven mutton, weighing in the whole about 500 pounds weight making only about 12 or 13 dinners, & when apportioned among the Boys not seven pounds a piece, here Sir, does this appear like forcing mutton on them? I had no early inducement to purchase mutton in preference to Beef, the price for both is the same; the fact is I had no alternative, Beef was not to be had, neither could I buy shoats or chickens, & fresh meat I was compelled by my contract to furnish. I make the statement merely to ease my own mind & to give you a true knowledge of the business for I had a head that you opposed the report.</p> <p>My dear Sir, I cannot<pb id="unc06-125-p03" n="3"/>[help] reflecting on the disingenuous conduct of the Committee & <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Board</name> in this particular, because had any one of you let me know the thing, satisfaction could have been given, & my assertion proved that the information was false. </p> <p>Buoyed with a conscienceness that I have fully & amply complied with my contract, I view this treatment as particularly injurious & unjust. </p> <p>The manner in which, I conceive, the board altered my contract, shall be the subject of another letter or a personal conference, in the mean time permit me to assure you that appearances are indicative of if not ruin, the most severe stroke been sustained. Present my respects to <name key="pn0003004" reg="Alves, Mary Amelia Johnston" type="person" rend="yes">M<hi rend="sup">rs</hi> Alves</name> & [complements] to y<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Brother. </p> <closer> <salute>and believe me truly and<lb/> respectfully your most<lb/>obedient</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0000720" reg="Henderson, Pleasant" type="person"><hi rend="underscore">Henderson</hi></name></signed> <salute> <name key="pn0003005" reg="Alves, Walter" type="person">Walter Alves esquire</name></salute></closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <pb id="unc06-125-p04" n="4"/> <p>With respect to the latter part of the report, I admit the Bacon is fat, but as the Boys eat at the hams not saving one for my family, could the Committee conceive that the midlings were to be thrown away, as they eat the hams certainly they ought also to use the fatter part. The hams were used when vegetables were scarce.</p> <p> I put this in by way of a postscript.</p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>