Title:Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to Charles
Manly, October 28, 1856: Electronic Edition.
Author: Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886
Funding from the University Library, University of North
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Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
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Brian Dietz
First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 8K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American
South.
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English
Revision history:
2005-07-05, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
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Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
(#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Title of document: Letter from Benjamin S. Hedrick to Charles
Manly, October 28, 1856
Author: B. S. Hedrick
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Accompanying this I send you a letter which I wrote before visiting
you in
Raleigh. I
believe I mentioned to you the fact that I had written it; certainly I
mentioned it to some of the
Board. When I came home from the Fair it was too
late to send it during that week, and the speedy action of your
committee left no place for it afterwards. I send it
to you now only for your private reading, and as
giving me an opportunity to thank you for the uniform kindness you have always
shown me. I would send it to the
committee as at first intended, but for fear that it
might come to
Holden
and thus give him another opportunity to accuse me of
"begging"
the
committee did, your first resolutions came to me in
pretty much this shape "Resign or be dismissed" and that is what
Holden
calls occupying a "delicate position"!
Very delicate indeed!! Something like giving you a delicate hint to leave by
kicking you down stairs. I am sorry some members of your
Board have such fine perceptions of delicacy.
I thank you again for all your kindness. You helped cut off my head
but I know you made the blow fall as lightly as you could.