Letter from L. S. Joynes to James H. Conway, 1864 November 23

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Richmond Nov. 23 1864

Dr. James H. Conway
Governor Street

Dear Doctor:

In my conversation with you at the 
College this morning, I was much gratified at
the propriety of the views and feelings expressed by
you in relation to your recent neglect of duty, and
the unfortunate occasion of it, and accepted freely
as an evidence of sincerity the voluntary expression
of {your} willingness to resign your Chair, in case of a 
repetition of such delinquencies, during the present
session. May I not ask in the name of your col
leagues, who have felt not only pain on your account
at these occurrences, but concern for their inevitable
influence upon the fair fame and the prosperity of
the institution in which we have a common interest
and to which we are bound by common obligations
of duty, that you will give to this pledge its most
solemn and binding form, by reducing it to writing
and subscribing it with your name? Considering