Excerpt from The Papers of Archibald D. Murphey, Vol. 1 In transcribing manuscripts for the press I have been guided by the Suggestions for the printing of documents relating to American history contained in the Awnual Report of the American Historical Association for 1905, page 45, bearing in mind that the end to be achieved is the printing of the manu script in the form which it would have home if the author had contemporaneously put it into print. All of the papers printed are autograph letters or documents, signed by the writer, except those otherwise described in the footnotes or stated to be derived from a printed source. The initials M. Mss. Placed at the right of the heading of a letter indi cates that the original letter is in the collection of Murphey mss. In my possession; the initials Rufin mss. Mean the papers of Chief Justice Thomas Rufiin, owned by his family; and the initials Univ. Mss. Mean the collections of the Uni versity of North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.