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Davidson College N.C
Nov. 21/59
Dear Uncle,
I was indeed some what surprised the other day at receiving your kind letter from Salisbury, I was no less rejoiced than surprised to hear from you & from home. I acknowledge that I am somewhat negligent about writing but I wrote home about three weeks ago & have not received an answer yet, perhaps my letter has miscarried I will write again by this mail. I should have written to you long ago, & intended to, but not being well prepared and being prefaced by my studies I have hitherto had
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very little time to write; I am now more on an equality with my class consequently I shall have more time and shall try to be more punctual in writing to my friends. I received a letter from David a few days ago, and was very sorry to learn that my carelessness in breaking your carriage toung has cased Aunt Harriet to get hurt, I hope she has got well. I have no news to write except that the citizens are talking about running the railroad through this place if they do I can come home in a hurry, I have become somewhat used to coledge life & upon the whole I like it very well: however I must acknowledge
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that my first impression was not very favorable, on my first appearance on the Campus the first fellow that I met “heads out” Fresh on the Campus” instandly the windows were up, heads out, and there was a long loud about of “Fresh” They tried to bore me awile at first, but soon found that it would not pay, and quit it. It would be difficult to find more sturdy & moral set of young men (generally speaking) any where as the student of this Coledge, more than two thirds of them are members of the church, still there are some rowdys some of the boys carried off the Coledge bell last week, and we
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passed nearly a whole day without prayers or recitation, the bell & iron frame is said to have weighed about 800 lib. The xxx sacrament meeting has just ended here, during which I have heard some of the best preshing that I ever herd in my life by Mr. Frontis a Frenchman who was educated for a Catholic priest. It is now growing late & I must close, tell Pa & Mother when you see them that I am well and getting fat down here feasting on Breek & Latin everyday, give my love to Aunt Hariet & my respects to all enquiring friends. Please write soon.
Your affectionate Nephew
J.L. Greenlee
P.S. Please excuse bad writing done in haste.
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From: DC0115s, Greenlee, James Logan, 1840-1862 (1863) Letters, 1859-1862 (Finding Aid)
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Greenlee, James Logan, Letter to Uncle. 21 November 1859. DC0115s, Greenlee, James Logan, 1840-1862 (1863) Letters, 1859-1862. Available: https://davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org/archives/digital-collections/james-l-greenlee-letter-november-transcript-2/.
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