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Dear Sir
I have read over with much attention the interesting Report on the state of the poor Indians which You were kind enough to send me some days ago, and I fully share in Your benevolent sympathies in behalf of those suffering and uninterested people.
On reading an account of the Expenditure for the Board and Education of the two Indian boys who have been placed at St Marys College, it occurred to me that so large a sum might be more usefully employed for other benevolent purposes.
It appears to me that no great progress can be reasonably expected in the elder of those boys, but I think your experiment might be carried on with the Younger, who, if entirely confined to the College, and subjected to a peculiar discipline might improve very much, He seems more capable of improvement than