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Philander Chase updates his family about his fundraising progress of Jubilee College and informs them he does not expect to return home soon.
Date
4-24-1840
Keywords
South Carolina, Jubilee College, fundraising
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Dudley Chase" (1840). Philander Chase Letters. 1120.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/1120
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Charleston 24th of April 1840
My dearest Brother:
I have just returned to this city and among many found your letter very acceptable letter of the 2nd of last month - I thank God and [?] exceedingly that you and all the dear ones are well in [Randolph] and Bethel and [Royalton]! Give my best love to them one and all and say this.
I do not expect to return to my family as I [stated] in time to attend my convention on the first of June. Shall write them - that my duty keeps me on the ground here where there is a heart to give to noble objects till I shall have observed sufficient to preserve hopes of success in the quest object of Jubilee College.
This determination will [enable] me to pay a visit to my dear relations. You and all those whom I love above all the world beside my own dear ones in the Relations next [?] excepted.
I believe I sent you my appeal. [?] its being printed: there is subscribed (part promised and part collected) more than one thousand dollars.
Besides this I hear of 150 pounds being sent from England for Jubilee!
Friends in this Diocese insist on my staying to the Consecration of the Bp Elect S Carolina. His thought Bp Doane will come on by the 20th of this month - Bp: Meade being previously engaged.
In haste I am
Your loving B[?]
Phil Chase