| 5Chapel Hill February 22nd [1844]
Dear Rufus
I have been thinking
of writing to you some time but have not found so good an opportunity as I
have at this time being Washingtons birthday and
therefore we have a snap. It is true that I do not calculate
to interest you for there is no news stirring about
Chapel Hill at this time. I frequently think of your school
and ours. You have so many playfellows nearly all of
whom I am aquainted with, for I am confined to a
school with but five besides myself. Two of them are
my brothers Button and Dick the other three are Dr
[More's?] sons. Their ages suit our very well and they
are a lively and well disposed parcel of boys
We play base ball, or what they call up here town ball
roly boly and the like. Our school teacher is named Wilson
and is a very tall raw boned sort of a fellow. He has
threatened to whale some of us but has not got hold
of any of us yet. I am going over Ovid
and will get through it soon. I get fifty or sixty
lines a lesson I am the highest scholar in school
and was so the last session too and I am at the head
and foot of my class. I suppose that you are | 5Chapel Hill February 22nd [1844]
Dear Rufus
I have been thinking
of writing to you some time but have not found so good an opportunity as I
have at this time being Washingtons birthday and
therefore we have a snap. It is true that I do not calculate
to interest you for there is no news stirring about
Chapel Hill at this time. I frequently think of your school
and ours. You have so many playfellows nearly all of
whom I am aquainted with, for I am confined to a
school with but five besides myself. Two of them are
my brothers Button and Dick the other three are Dr
[More's?] sons. Their ages suit our very well and they
are a lively and well disposed parcel of boys
We play base ball, or what they call up here town ball
roly boly and the like. Our school teacher is named Wilson
and is a very tall raw boned sort of a fellow. He has
threatened to whale some of us but has not got hold
of any of us yet. I am going over Ovid
and will get through it soon. I get fifty or sixty
lines a lesson I am the highest scholar in school
and was so the last session too and I am at the head
and foot of my class. I suppose that you are |
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