<hi rend="bold"> Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, August 12, 1866 (In Which She Describes the University Opening with 100 Students) :</hi> Electronic Edition. Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908 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 Caitlin R. Donnelly Text encoded by Caitlin R. Donnelly First Edition, 2007 ca. 16K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2007

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 Cornelia Phillips Spencer Papers (#683), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Journal of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, August 12, 1866 (In Which She Describes the University Opening with 100 Students) [Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908] 2 pages, 2 page images 1866 Call number 683 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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I went with <name key="pn0003523" reg="Spencer, Julia James" type="person" rend="yes">June</name> — in Mrs <name key="pn0001699" reg="Utley, Martha (née Hilliard)" type="person" rend="yes">Utley's</name> rickaway Enjoyed the day very much — a pretty sight!</p> <p>Went with Mrs <name key="pn0001699" reg="Utley, Martha (née Hilliard)" type="person">Utley</name> to see <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Martha Rogers</name> — & a sick woman <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Betsy Davis</name> — dying of consumption at the old Bachelor place. <name key="pn0003523" reg="Spencer, Julia James" type="person">June</name> enjoyed her little rides so much. When I build a castle in the air — a horse & buggy to <hi rend="underscore">drive us out in</hi> always forms a part of it.</p> <p>Letter from <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Jack L.</name> No news — but little satisfactory of himself except that his health is better. Had received my & <name key="pn0003523" reg="Spencer, Julia James" type="person">June's</name> photographs — much pleased therewith. This is the first letter I have had from him since last fall. Had one from Dr. <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">I.</name> in April last — 10<hi rend="sup">th</hi>.</p> <p><name key="pn0001193" reg="Mitchell, Charles Andrews" type="person" rend="yes">Charles Mitchell</name> died in <name key="name0000015" reg="Alabama" type="place" rend="yes">Al<hi rend="sup">a</hi>.</name> on the 10<hi rend="sup">th</hi> of July — a letter has been received by Mrs <name key="pn0001200" reg="Mitchell, Maria Sybil (née North)" type="person" rend="yes">M.</name> giving very meagre details — ill four or five days. Room for painful conjecture as his habits were those of an opium-eater. Dr <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes">Mitchell's</name> only son! The <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes">Dr's</name> reputation will be an enduring one in this State, but it will rest on his own fame alone. Fifty years hence it will be more prominent & more revered than now — it is a kind of reputation that grows with advancing years. But his son — his son! I never admired <name key="pn0001193" reg="Mitchell, Charles Andrews" type="person">Charles Mitchell</name> as boy or as young man. There was always a certain repulsive something in the expression of his face — handsome as it was. Something <hi rend="underscore">brutal</hi>. But I always thought he would be an able & respectable man. Even when I heard of <pb id="unc09-40-p02" n="[139]"/>that fatal habit, I still had so much faith in a godly parentage — religious training — & the prayers of his family that I was sure the day would come when <name key="pn0000589" reg="God" type="person">God</name>'s mercy would be shown in his reformation. I could not think that Dr <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">Mitchell's</name> only son would be a cast-away. Nor do I think we have any right to think that is the case even now. What can we know of his last hours.</p> <p>Our <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> has only 100 students. At Gen <name key="pn0000971" reg="Lee, Robert E." type="person" rend="yes">Lee's</name> <name key="x" reg="x" type="organization" rend="">College</name> over 700 applications have been received — 500 at the <name key="name0001163" reg="University of Virginia" type="organization" rend="yes">V<hi rend="sup">a</hi> Uni.</name> Dr <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Link</name> writes to his wife that Gen <name key="pn0000971" reg="Lee, Robert E." type="person">Lee's</name> boys are <hi rend="underscore">very insubordinate</hi>. I think that flood tide in favor of <name key="name0001190" reg="Virginia" type="place" rend="yes">V<hi rend="sup">a</hi></name> will ebb after a while. Why should Gen <name key="pn0000971" reg="Lee, Robert E." type="person">Lee</name> be a first rate college President! </p> <p>I think sometimes I would like to write little articles upon certain verses in the Bible that always strike me. I come across them now & then in reading at family prayers in the Old Testament. Sometimes it is only a clause of a sentence, but it is always fresh & new & sets me to thinking. <name key="pn0003523" reg="Spencer, Julia James" type="person">June</name> takes great interest in the readings at prayers. All about <name key="pn0000391" reg="David (biblical)" type="person">David</name> this summer — beginning now with <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Solomon</name>. She listens with her mouth open.</p> <p>I let her go to one of the weekly dances at the Library with Mrs <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">F.</name> the other night. She came home quite satisfied & says she never wants to go again. <hi rend="underscore">I hope not.</hi></p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>