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by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.
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Summary
September 16, 1717
Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, 1717 September16
Robert Carter writes to London merchant William Dawkins,September 16, 1717, that he was very pleased to learn of his oldestson John's recovery from an illness, and expresses his hope that Johnwill escape the vices of the "rising generation" during his lawstudies at the Temple. He adds unhappily that he seldom hears fromJohn but now that he will be living in town, he should haveopportunities to write.
Letter from Robert Carter to WilliamDawkins,
September 16, 1717
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[Rappahannock, LancasterCounty, Virginia]
September 16,1717
To William Dawkins
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My son's
recovery is the best
part ofyour news. 1st of May, it
seems he was with you in order
to his settling at theTemple.
Pray grant he may bepreserved
from the flagrant vices of the rising
generationand that he may
suitably answerethe just ex=
pense I shall be at in his
education. I hearseldom from
him. Certainly now heis come
to take up his residence in town
he will find asmany opportu=
nities of writing as othermen
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NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Minor-Blackford Papers, James Monroe Law Office and Museum, Fredericksburg,Virginia. These texts are all nineteenth-century copies. Apparentlythere was in existence a letter book of Robert Carter's -- nowlost -- from which the unknown copiest recorded these texts. Asthey are the only texts, the punctuation and "corrections"obviously supplied by the copiest have been retained. The copistused rows of the letter "x" to indicate material that he did not copyfrom the letter book.
Robert Carter generally used a return address of"Rappahannock" for the river on which he lived rather than"Corotoman," the name of his home, on his correspondence, especiallyto merchants abroad. The return address, county, and colony have beenadded for clarity on this unheaded letter.
This text revised September 30,2008.