William Goodacre to Wirt Robinson
| Dear Sir, | Sunday Morning Aug. 13. 1826. University of Virginia. |
I arrived here on Friday at 7 A.M. and am ready to proceed to the Natural Bridge tomorrow. We were last night awoke by a party of students with music who entered the house and called for drink it might have been 3 o’clock this morning (to wake a bull). They leisurely sat doubt down with their drum, fife, and clarions to give us some music which continued an hour aided by their Bachanalian clamours of applause having taken a drop they entered the Court House Window, just by and rang the bell violently for 20 minutes as a solo. The evenings entertainment was most probably concluded in the same manner as others always have been by turning the road to the University, removing the fence on the outer angle of a sharp turn and building it straight across the road.
I feel anxious to meet you at the N. B. I will therefore postpone my trip until Wednesday arriving there on Friday Thursday and leaving the first opportunity after Saturday.—
Can you bring with you an old, large, red chalk engraving of a head in one of my Portfolios. Try hard. never mind [. . . .]
If you arrive at the Bridge, at do not go to it until I come home from it if you find me there.I am at Brown’s Hotel here
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