1878 – Letter from a governor’s son to his mother reporting a belligerent professor at the University of North Carolina who brawled with one associate and challenged another to a duel
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: 1878. Unbound. This letter from R. (Reuben) D. Reid, son of Governor David S. Reed, to his mother who was managing the family hotel in Reidsville is datelined “Chapel Hill N.C. / Sept 25th 1878”. No envelope. In nice shape. In his letter Ruben reports..... More