<!DOCTYPE TEI.2 system 'teilite.dtd' [ <!NOTATION jpg SYSTEM "JPEG"> <!ENTITY HeaHarp1 SYSTEM "HeaHarp1.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY HeaHarp2 SYSTEM "HeaHarp2.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY HeaHarp3 SYSTEM "HeaHarp3.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY HeaHarp4 SYSTEM "HeaHarp4.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY % ISOlat1 system "ISOlat1"> %ISOlat1; <!ENTITY % ISOlat2 system "ISOlat2"> %ISOlat2; <!ENTITY % ISOnum system "ISOnum"> %ISOnum; <!ENTITY % ISOpub system "ISOpub"> %ISOpub; <!ENTITY % ISOtech system "ISOtech"> %ISOtech; ]> <TEI.2> <teiHeader type=aacr2> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Letter, 3 November 1859 [a machine-readable transcription]</title> <author>Healy, Elliot Muse</author> <respStmt> <resp>Creation of machine-readable version: </resp> <name>David Seaman, University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.</name> <resp>Creation of digital images: </resp> <name>Special Collections, UVa library; David Seaman, University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. </name> <resp>Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: </resp> <name>David Seaman, University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.</name> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <extent>ca. 10 kilobytes </extent> <publicationStmt> <publisher>University of Virginia Library.</publisher> <pubPlace>Charlottesville, Va.</pubPlace> <idno type="ETC">Modern English, HeaHarp</idno> <availability> <p>URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng.browse.html</p> <p>URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/history/histsem.html</p> <p></p> </availability> <date>1996</date> </publicationStmt> <seriesStmt><p></p></seriesStmt> <notesStmt> <note>Illustrations have been included from the print version.</note> </notesStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblFull> <titleStmt><title>Letter, 3 November 1859</title> <author>Elliot Muse Healy</author> <respStmt><resp>Transcriber</resp> <name>David Seaman, Catherine Tousignant</name> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p></p> </editionStmt> <extent></extent> <publicationStmt> <publisher></publisher> <pubPlace></pubPlace> <date></date> </publicationStmt> <seriesStmt><p>UVa Special Collections: MSS 10496: Papers of the Healy Family. </p></seriesStmt> <notesStmt><note>Item digitized for Creating Online Materials for Teaching United States History. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. June 16-22, 1996. </note></notesStmt> </biblFull> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <encodingDesc> <projectDesc> <p>Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.</p> </projectDesc> <editorialDecl> <p>The images exist as archived TIFF images, one or more JPEG versions for general use, and thumbnail GIFs.</p> <p id=ETC>Keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Center scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.</p> </editorialDecl> <refsDecl> <p>ID elements are given for each page element and are composed of the text's unique cryptogram and the given page number, as in AusEmma1 for page one of Jane Austen's Emma.</p> </refsDecl> <classDecl><taxonomy id=LCSH> <bibl><title>Library of Congress Subject Headings TBA</title></bibl> </taxonomy></classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <date>1859</date> </creation> <langUsage> <language>English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords> <term>non-fiction; prose</term> </keywords> <keywords scheme="LCSH"> <term>LCSH</term> </keywords> </textClass> <textClass> <keywords> <term type="visual work">Autograph manuscript signed. </term> <term>24-bit color; 400 dpi</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date></date> <respStmt> <resp></resp> <name></name> </respStmt> <item></item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id=HeaHarp> <body> <div0 type="letter" n=1859-11-03> <head>MSS 10496: Papers of the Healy Family <lb> Letter from Elliot Muse Healy, 3 November 1859, 4pp. </head> <!-- <page n=1> --> <opener> <dateLine><name type="place">University of Virginia</name> <date>November 3. 1859 — </date></dateLine> <salute>Dear Brother —</salute> </opener> <p><figure entity="HeaHarp1"></figure></p> <p> It has been but a very <lb> short time since I wrote, but as you <lb> have assured me that my letters <lb> did not bore you all, I have determined <lb> to write again. </p><p> You ask what is generally thought <lb> of the late unheard of, unprecedented <lb> affair which took place at Harpers Ferry? <lb> </p><p> The Citizens of Charlottesville at least, <lb> look upon it as a very serious thing <lb> and have appointed a Mass-meeting <lb> to be held to night, for the purpose <lb> of increasing the military force of <lb> the Town & County, so that they <lb> might be prepared when occasion <lb> call for them. I should like very <lb> much to attend as Mr Leake and <lb> some other gentlemen of note, will <lb> <orig reg="address">addres</orig> the meeting. </p><p> I do not believe that those <lb> seventeen men could have been <lb> so desperate, so foolish and so rash <lb> as to have come in Va. for the <lb> <!-- </page> --><!-- <page n=2> --> <figure entity="HeaHarp2"></figure> purpose of liberating the slaves <lb> without promise of assistance <lb> from some quarter capable of <lb> furnishing it. True they say, they <lb> expected the slaves to rise up <lb> in numbers and join them, — I rejoice <lb> in their disappointment — but do <lb> not believe this was their sole <lb> reliance: many a freedom-shrieking <lb> fanatic of the north had promised <lb> his arm & his money to the cause, <lb> but a more deliberate reflection <lb> taught them the folly and futility <lb> of the undertaking and caused <lb> them to break their promise. <lb> </p><p> If the Abolitionists were not the <lb> most consummate fools in the <lb> world they could see that the <lb> legitimate tendancy of such an <lb> outbreak as this, is to make the <lb> masters more rigid with their <lb> slaves: but so boundless is their <lb> love for the slave & his freedom that <lb> they take not into consideration <lb> these trifles. </p><p> I almost think you will <lb> catch the <hi rend="underline">game</hi> over the river as <lb> <!-- </page> --> <!-- <page n=3> --> <figure entity="HeaHarp3"></figure> each sight seems to give renewed <lb> animation to the pursuit.<lb> </p><p> Do you continue to take John over <lb> with you? It may be that each <lb> has grown so bold & independent, as <lb> to be entirely careless about the <lb> company of the other. I suppose <lb> your next visit will seal your doom — <lb> and you will be ready to exclaim <lb> “what concentrated joy or <orig reg="woe">wo</orig> is there <lb> in blessed or blighted love” I hope <lb> you may be able to quote the above <lb> with as much life, as you used <lb> to quote your favorite lines from <lb> <hi rend="underline">Young</hi>, beginning “To recriminate is just &c.” </p><p> Did you say that stages were <lb> running from Urbanna to Richmond<lb> or to West Point? Although Christmas <lb> is sometime off, yet I often think of <lb> it and since the facilities are <lb> so great for getting to Middlesex <lb> I would be at all surprised if <lb> I spent a day or two with you <lb> about that time. More of this in<lb> the Future. </p><p> There is a good deal of drinking <lb> here — but I am happy to say that <lb> <!-- </page> --><!-- <page n=4> --> <figure entity="HeaHarp4"></figure> my most intimate <add place="interlinear">friends</add> and <orig reg="consequently">con- <lb> sequently</orig> my companions, <lb> generally, are <hi rend="underline">tetotalers</hi>. therefore <lb> I am free from all temptation on <lb> that score. <lb> </p><p> The time has come for me <lb> to go to the Post Office & as I have <lb> no news to tell I will stop so <lb> that I may take this up to the <lb> P.O. with me.<lb> </p><p> Give my best love to Ma — <lb> Aunt E. relations & friends and <lb> to any one else you choose.<lb> </p> <closer> <salute>Keep up your good practice of <lb> being prompt & Believe me your <lb> Affectionate Brother</salute> <signed> E M Healy</signed> </closer> </div0> </body> </text> </TEI.2>