LETTER ABOUT TUITION DUE.
Dear Sir,
It is very painful to me to inform you that it has been out of my power to raise the money I owe to you as Treasurer, notwithstanding the efforts I have made. My friends from I endeavoured to get it are almost as destitute of money as I am. I have a prospect before me of receiving some money, and I assure you as soon as I get it you shall be paid.
I am Sir,
Yr. mo obdt.
Ben Ragsdale
19th Decem. 1816
William Peace Esquire
Treasurer R Academy
—From Pittman Papers.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
