 | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney - 1895 - 254 pages
...time, but will not fail to do so very soon. I am a very Dunce, for not having acquired ye writing of short hand yet with any degree of swiftness; but I...distinguish well enough to subscribe my self with esteem, Sir, Yr. most obediant humble servant, ELIZA LUCAS. TO GEORGE LUCAS, ESQ. May 22, 1742. I am... | |
 | Harriott Horry Ravenel - History - 1896 - 364 pages
...have not acquired y° writing short hand yet with any degree of swiftness — but I am not always one for I give a very good proof of the brightness of...enough to subscribe my self with great esteem Sir Your most obe* humble ServELIZA LUCAS. Miss Bartlett insists on knowing why she is so busy in the country,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - America - 1901 - 714 pages
...little Negroes whom I have undertaken to teach to read ... I am a very Dunce, for I have not acquird y" writing short hand yet with any degree of Swiftness...with great Esteem Sir y'. most obed' humble Serv' EUZA LUCAS. Eliza Lucas, Journal and Letters (edited by Mrs. HP Holbrook, Wormsloe, 1850), 13-16 passim.... | |
 | Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - Plantation life - 1909 - 396 pages
...Pinckney as soon as I can but it will not be in my power till a month or two hence. Mama pays her comp*" to Mrs. Pinckney and hopes she will excuse her waiting...Georgia, printed in the Georgia Historical Society Collection), vol. vi, 242. MS. copy in the possession of the Georgia Historical Society. Last November... | |
 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - Girls - 1912 - 250 pages
...have not acquired y* writing short hand yet with any degree of swiftness — but I am not always one for I give a very good proof of the brightness of...enough to subscribe my self with great esteem. Sir Your most obed humble Serv* ELIZA LUCAS. And again: Why my dear Miss Bartlett, will you so often repeat... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1924 - 690 pages
...little Negroes whom I have undertaken to teach to read ... I am a very Dunce, for I have not acquird y* writing short hand yet with any degree of Swiftness...Esteem Sir y' most obed' humble Serv' ELIZA LUCAS. Eliza Lucas, Journal and Letters (edited by Mrs. HP Holbrook, Wormsloe, 1850), 13-16 passim. 84. Roisterers... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...little Negroes whom I have undertaken to teach to read ... I am a very Dunce, for I have not acquird ye writing short hand yet with any degree of Swiftness...Esteem Sir y' most obed' humble Serv' ELIZA LUCAS. Eliza Lucas, Journal and Letters (edited by Mrs. HP Holbrook, Wormsloe, 1850), 13-16 passim. 84. Roisterers... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...little Negroes whom I have undertaken to teach to read ... I am a very Dunce, for I have not acquird y* writing short hand yet with any degree of Swiftness...Esteem Sir y' most obed' humble Serv' ELIZA LUCAS. Eliza Lucas, Journal and Letters (edited by Mrs. HP Holbrook, Wormsloe, 1850), 1 3- 1 6 passim. 84.... | |
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I have not acquired the writing short hand yet with any degree of swiftness but I am not always so for I give a very good Proof of the brightness of my Genius when I can distinguish well enough to Subscribe my Self with great Esteem, Sir, y* most obed... 