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Davidson Coledge
Dear Pa,
I have neglected to write home for some time now I have been so busy I suppose you will be anxious to know how we got along on our trip & how we are doing. after leaving home we were fortunate enough to lose part of our company at Carsons when we got inside & had a very pleasant ride to morganton, very good company too, the sheriff of Adison & an old Doctor, who went with us as far as Statesville, we staid in Morganton Friday night, next morning we took the cars 14 miles below Morganton I was very much pleased with railroad travel, you know Iwas never on the cars before we arrived in Statesville without accident except that David lost his hat while going down to Newton in looking out of the window but the conductor was kind enough to stop for it as we came back. We hired a coveyance
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in Statesville and came out to Mr. Young’s Saturday evening, and arrived Safely at Coledge Sunday. Payne was already here waiting for me David has regularly entered Coledge, he has got just the sort of a roommate to suit him (as I think) a steady pious young man by the name of Lindsay, David seems pretty well pleased with him, and also with Coledge life the boys teased him a little at first, but they soon quit it. There are now eight professors, four new ones Dr. Phar is professor of greek, Rev. Mr. Frontis of F ench Mr. Baringer of belles letters, & Mr. Dickey a member of the last senior class temporary professor of the higher mathematics. I hope Davidson will take a rise before long.
All the keeprs of boarding houses in the place (except Mrs. Brown) met and made an agreement to raise board to $12 a month, they thought they could make the students pay whatever they wished, but when the boys returned they would not stand it, about
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twenty five of them clubbed together hired a house & cook & are boarding themselves They call their house the continental hotel The boarding house keepers are caught in their own trap, & I think they begin to rue their bargain, for boarders at $12 are almost as scarce as henteeth. David & I are boarding at Mrs. Brown’s. I hear they are laying the track on the railroad between here & Charlotte. They expect to have it done for this January and if it is completed to Statesville by commencement we can come home in a hurry
It is getting & I must close this letter You must write to me soon & give me all the news about home, give my love to all homefolks, & my respects to all enquiring friends. Tell Mother, John, & Becky they must all write to me, & Tid too.
Write soon I shall be anxious to hear from you
Your affectionate son
J.L. Greenlee
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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 Father. 3 October 1860. DC0115s, Greenlee, James Logan, 1840-1862 (1863) Letters, 1859-1862. Available: https://davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org/archives/digital-collections/james-l-greenlee-letter-october-transcript/.
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