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I wished to send down at one time all the accounts I have to present to you and it has not been in my power to finish them until this time because I could not get some of the items rendered sooner. I beg leave to call your attention to some 5 or 6 items of business.
1. On the top of the first page of the inclosed sheet you will find an account of my receipts
of Tuition monies and Room Rent for the past session and of my disbursements of the same. You
may perhaps be struck with some surprise that an intimate and dear friend of mine
2. There follows next a copy of bills created by the executor of the Repairs above referred to
amounting to. In regards to this sum I have to remark, that the house being old had fallen much
to decay. The fences were in ruins, the piazza in front of the house could hardly be supported
by all the props we could collect about it, the rain came in through the roof so that it
required no little skill to select a place in our sleeping apartment where one could keep dry of
a rainy night. The repairs were therefore commenced as far back as 1833 and have been proceeding
slowly ever since. It was recommended to me and They are
therefore included by way of experiment to see what the Committee will say to them. If I
am thought to be pushing too far I give you authority to amputate at whatever joint shall seem
to you most decent. The bills of the carpenters are copied, I retain the originals as vouchers.
I believe them to be reasonable. I am not so clear about the lumber where the articles for
college work, for the work done at the expence of the
3. On the third and fourth pages of the sheet is an account of the disbursement of one hundred
dollars that you entrusted to me last summer. Finding the Theodolite,
4. I was instructed by the Committee last winter to rent a certain house in this place for the
use of the President till another should be prepared. This I did for 75 dollars if I do not
mistake. The President never used the house but Christmas the contractor for the brick came in
and occupied it in March or April (Waitt knows). The
5. I shall after the expiration of two days have my bursar accounts ready and it seems to be
due to all parties to have them audited. Also if there should be any person in the Committee, in
the
6. If you can from any or all of the sources indicated in this communication — Salary still due — liquidation of bills for the repair of the house where I am writing — or rent due for that engaged for the President — put me in funds for the amount of some 300 dollars I shall be much rejoiced. Can you command leisure to drop me a line in relation to these and other matters?
1. Probably