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Richmond
Monday
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Sir,
After
my
treatment on yesterday and what passed
between us this morning, I can hardly think you will be surprised at
the contents of this letter. My determination is at length taken — to
leave your house and indeavor [[sic]]
to find some place in this wide
world, where I will be treated — not as you have treated me —
This is
not a
hurried determination, but one on
which I have long considered — and having so considered my resolution
is unalterable — You may perhaps think that I have flown off in a
passion, & that I am already wishing to return; But not so — I will
give you the reasons which have actuated me, and then judge —
Since I
have
been able to think on any subject, my
thoughts have aspired, and they have been taught by you to aspire, to
eminence in public life — this cannot be attained without a good
Education, such a one I cannot obtain at a Primary school — [page 2:]
A
collegiate
Education therefore was what I most
ardently desired, and I had been led to expect that it would at some
future time be granted — but in a moment of caprice — you have blasted
my hope <sed> because forsooth I disagreed with you in an
opinion, which opinion I was forced to express —
Again,
I have
heard you say (when you little thought
I was listening <)> and therefore must have said it in earnest)
that you had no affection for me —
You
have moreover ordered me to quit your
house, and are continually upbraiding me with eating the bread of
Idleness, when you yourself <m> were the only person to remedy
the evil by placing me to some business —
You
take
delight in exposing me before those whom
you think likely to advance my interest in this world —
You
suffer me
to be subjected to the whims &
caprice, not only of your white family, but the [page 3:] complete authority of the
blacks — these grievances I could not submit to; and I am gone[.] I
request that you will send me my trunk containing my clothes &
books — and if you still have the least affection for me, As the last
cal[l] I shall make on your bounty, To prevent the fulfillment of the
Prediction you this morning expressed, send me as much money as will
defray <my> the expences of my passage to some of the Northern
cit[i]es & then support me for one month, by whic[h] time I shall
be enabled to place myself [in] some situation where I may not only
o[bt]ain a livelihood, but lay by a sum which one day or another will
support me at the University — Send my trunk &c to the Court-house
Tavern, send me I entreat you some money immediately — as I am in the
greatest necessity — If you fail to comply with my request — I tremble
for the consequence
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It
depends
upon yourself if hereafter you see or
hear from me[.]
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