my dear brother for your brotherly and affectionate wishes for my improvement is to make a good and profitable use of the advantage your kind & liberal generosity will enable me to attain. With such a stimulus I hope to begin my studies this winter with renewed energy and vigor and do all in my power to acquire what will render me both useful and agreeable in whatever station or society providence sees fit to place my future home. The schools reopen on the 28th of this month when I expect to enter into a superior one to where I was last as the teachers are all the first class masters. I will also