I write in answer to your last loving letter of Aug 12th and which I received several days since. When you wrote you were not aware that George had taken due leave of this Classic Hill, but, no doubt you have long since learned the truth, for he has been gone some five or six weeks. Yesterday I received a letter from George; he was well and says that he likes the University more and more every day, he has been studying Law, but intended in a few days going down to Lynchburg on a visit to Cpt. Allen & family. You asked me if G. was in very good health, to tell you the truth, I never saw him in better health or look better than when he was here last. I am also in excellent health. We are all somewhat disappointed by the slowness and want of energy in the trustees of the University. they have done nothing, as yet, and I am affraid that they will do nothing until it is too late. North Carolinians are the slowest people in the world — it is their characteristic. Indeed I care very little whether I stay here or not; if Pa thinks that I ought to remain, then I will do so; but if he wishes me to quit College then I also have a wish it is that he procure a good business place for me in New York City ; not as a merchant or any thing of that kind, but as a clerk in a Bank — or as a drummer to some important establishment.

I wrote Pa a very short letter the other day acknowledging the receipt of the $500 &c. I will in this enclose a note for him I have found the first (hundred) check which you sent about two months ago in an old letter, which arrived for George in vacation & which by some mistake or accident I did not forward to him, but of course it is of no value now. I will write to George this evening. I have forwarded all letters & papers to George.