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May 22, 1855
Davidson College
Dear Brother
I have waited patiently and looked long for a leter from you but have not received a scratch. So I have come to the conclusion that you have either written and your leter has been mis carried or you are not going to wright at all. I do not know which of the_____ it is but I concider that I would wright to you at nay rate and give you the news of Old Davidson. Although there is not mutch news going. It has been hard times about here for the last month we began to think there was going to be a famine here. It has been very dry here for the last month. but we had a fine rain here last week. Crops are not hurt as bad as it as though but they are very backward.
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I came back to old Davidson about heree weeks after I wrote to you, when I came here there were only five students here but they have been gradually increasing since that time ther are twenty nine here now. I do not expect there will be many more here this session but I look for a good many here next. I suppost that the old College would have broken down if it had not been for the Chambers of Salsbury. He died soon after___ brok up and left it between two and three hundrer thousand dollars when that report got out out the students began to come back and the Trusties elected new two new profesors and a president and every thing is going on very smoothly here now with considerable improvement. In two or three more years this will be a great plase. We have to study very hard now and are very well tought. I am as good as any in the class in mathematics. We have a splendid teacher of mathematics.
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I have not been home in two months and a half. but I expect ot go next Saturday, I don not know whether I can get of or not I heard fromthere about two weeks ago they were all well then. I suppose that you heard W. Morriss like Moty was dead. I have been well since I wrote you. Locust year has come again __are thousars of them but I believe that they are not doin any harme except they keep us from studying with their noise.
Bill I think you have served me right mean by not wrighting to me. I want you to wright as soon as you can to your affectionate brother.
James P. McCombs
P.S. Please give my love to all my relations and tell me when you are coming home any time between this and August and come through here give me a call. Direct your letters to Davidson College
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From: DC0117s (Finding Aid)
Cite as: McCombs, J.P. Letter to Brother. 22 May 1855. DC0117s. James P. McCombs Letters. Davidson College Archives, Davidson College, NC. Available: https://davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org/archives/digital-collections/james-p-mccombs-letter-22-may-1855/.
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