Dublin Core
Title
Letter, Iverson L. Brookes to Jonathan Brookes
Source
Iverson Lewis Brookes Papers (#3249), Southern Historical Collection
Date
September 1816
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Chapel Hill Sepbr. 1816
Dear Father
Asa favorable opportunity of writing by Mr. Morehead, who will pass by the neighborhood, offers unexpectedly, I cannot let it pass without giving you a few lines (though I have but a few minutes to write in) We have lately had a considerable commotion in College which has terminated in suspension of 27 of the students. It origined[sic] from a speech delivered by one of the Senior Class which had been corrected by the president and the students neglected the alterations made & persisted to speak it as e composed it, after he was several times ordered to stop upon the the public stage. The students generally supposed the corrections[?] on the speech were wrong & many of them at the close of it showed their approbation of the young man’s conduct by clapping & making open plaudits in the publick[sic] Hall in the presence of the assembly in which were several strangers On the next morning they met at the Chapel for the purpose of consulting on some[?] measure[?] to show their further contempt of the President in ordering the for the corrections[?] on the speech & his conduct towards the speaker
Dear Father
Asa favorable opportunity of writing by Mr. Morehead, who will pass by the neighborhood, offers unexpectedly, I cannot let it pass without giving you a few lines (though I have but a few minutes to write in) We have lately had a considerable commotion in College which has terminated in suspension of 27 of the students. It origined[sic] from a speech delivered by one of the Senior Class which had been corrected by the president and the students neglected the alterations made & persisted to speak it as e composed it, after he was several times ordered to stop upon the the public stage. The students generally supposed the corrections[?] on the speech were wrong & many of them at the close of it showed their approbation of the young man’s conduct by clapping & making open plaudits in the publick[sic] Hall in the presence of the assembly in which were several strangers On the next morning they met at the Chapel for the purpose of consulting on some[?] measure[?] to show their further contempt of the President in ordering the for the corrections[?] on the speech & his conduct towards the speaker
Original Format
Letter