| | 1 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, May [25], 1826  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I this morning recieved the clothes you sent me,
viz an uniform coat, six yards of striped cloth for pantaloons
& four pairs of socks — The coat is a beautiful one &
fits me exactly — I thought it best not to write 'till
I recieved the clothes — or I should have written
before this.
You have heard no doubt of the disturbances in College
Soon after you left here the Grand Jury met and put
the students in a terrible fright — so much so that
the lectures were unattended — and those whose
names were up
on the Sheriff's list —travelled off
into the woods & mountains — taking their beds
and provisions along with them —there were about
50 on the list — so you may suppose the College was
very well thinned
— this was the first day of the fright
the second day, "A proclamation was issued by the
faculty forbidding "any students under pain of a
major punishment to leave his dormitory between
the hours of 8 & 10 A M — (at which time the Sheriffs
would be about) or in any way to resist the lawful
authority of the Sheriffs"— This order however was
very little attended to — as the fear of the Faculty could
not counterbalance that of the Grand Jury — most
of the "indicted" ran off a second time into the woods
and upon an examination the next morning by the
Fa-
culty
— Some were reprimanded —some suspended
and one expelled— James Albert Clark
from Manchester.
(I went to school with him at Barke's)
was suspended for two months. Armstead Carter
from this neighbourhood, for the remainder of the
session —
And Thomas Barclay for ever—
There have been several fights since you were here—
One between Turner Dixon and
Blow from
Nor-
folk excited more interest than any I have seen,
for a common fight is so trifling an occurrence
that no notice is taken of it — Blow
got much
the advantage in the scuffle — but Dixon posted
him in very indecent terms— upon which the
whole
Norfolk
party rose in arms — & nothing was
talked off for a week, but
Dixon's charge &
Blow's
explanation — every pillar in the University was
white with
scratched paper — Dixon made an
a physical attack upon Arthur Smith one of
Blow's
Norfolk friends —
and a "very fine fellow".
he struck him with a large stone on one side of
his head — whereupon Smith
drew a pistol (which
are all the fashion here) and had it not miss-
fire— would have put an end to the controversy.
but so it was— it did miss fire —
and the matter
has since been more peaceably setled — as the
Proctor engaged a Magistrate
to bind the whole
forces on both sides — over to the peace —
Give my love to Ma & Miss Nancy -& all my friends — | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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