LETTER TO ELI WARD.
ELI Onslow May 31st 1913.
I have just received your letter and am supprised to hear the examination has taken place as I expected it would not commence until about 15th of June at which time I expected to go or send. You must call on Mr. Peace and he will pay for your schooling—as it is out of my power at this time to send the money, for the want of an opportunity as there is no post office nigh, which you well know—I am now waiting for my vessel to sail for Wilmington where I expect to be in a few days. I will then send on the money for you to pay Mr. Peace, and Mr. Goodwin for your board which you can make none to them.
I am Your etc. [Postcript illegible.] Edwd. Ward.
Mr. Eli Ward Raleigh
[Mailed at Swansboro, June 1st, postage 12½cents.]
—From Pittman Papers.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
