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Primary document
Title:
Letter from William Lord DeRosset to his mother, Eliza Jane
Lord DeRosset, November 9, 1851 [Containing a Description of a Book
Burning]: Electronic Edition.
Author: DeRosset, William Lord
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
Size of electronic edition: ca. 12K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2007
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2007-05-15, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: DeRosset Family Papers (#214), Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from William Lord DeRosset to his mother,
Eliza Jane Lord DeRosset, November 9, 1851 [Containing a Description of
a Book Burning]
Author: Wm. Lord DeRosset
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 214 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Letter from William Lord
DeRosset to his mother, Eliza
Jane Lord DeRosset, November 9, 1851 [Containing a Description of a
Book Burning]
Page [1]
Chapel
Hill
Nov. 9th 1851
Nov. 9th 1851
My dear Mother
It entirely escaped my memory to write on last Thursday until it was past the
time for the mail to close, so I had to put it off until to day's mail.
I did not receive my regular letter last week. I heard, through Cousin Rebecca Moore, to day, that
Sister was sick. I hope
it is nothing serious. I wish you would write immediately and let me hear how
she is.
We have had a "big kick up" since I last wrote. The Students
heard that there were no more copies of Pierce's Mathematics in the United States; so they collected all
the copies that there were in College and made a bonfire of them. There were
some seventy or eighty books. The consequence was that they put our Class
Page [2]
(which was studying Calculus) into Astronomy. and
the sophomore Class (which was studying Analytics) into Philosophy. The
supposition is that Pierce's
Mathematics (which is the hardest published) will be struck out of the College
Course. The Students have been trying to do this for the last ten years.
Page [2]
Walker Meares and John Holmes have been suspended
(for sundry irregularities) for two weeks. Their time is out tomorrow. I suppose
by the time this reaches you, Los and Al will be
with you. I wish I was there too.
However I will be there in a little over three weeks. It is most time to send me
money to come home with. When you write please dont forget to send me the money
I sent for two weeks ago together with this.
Bishop Ives arrived here Friday night on the stage, he preached last night
and is to preach this morning and to-night. I will go to hear him.
Bye the bye I must close as it is Church-time.
Give my love to all. With hopes of seeing you all soon I remain
Your affectionate Son
Wm. Lord DeRosset