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I returned here from o Carolinah & had the pleasure to find your letter of the 16h of April, and thank you for your kind concern respecting my Health. I have now
again been two months on the road, and return perfectly worn down. My constitution cannot now bear
the degree of suffering, precaution and incessant toil, which when I enjoyed youth and health only
gave me spirits and pleasure. Every thing must yield to time, and I have submitted with as good a
grace as possible. My plan of life is to be completely changed, and more measures which are to lead
me to a Repose I have long sighed for, and which in becoming every day more
necessary for me are to commence this fall. My plan involves some painful sacrifice, but they are
necessary and indispensable. A separation from friends to whom my heart has been tenderly attached
for many years is among the most painful of all these; I anticipate it, I feel it as a prelude to
that last separation to which the laws of our Nature compel us all to submit. About the
once
more.
I expected to be at the th of July, the time the superintendent has fixed for her reception, and in my
situation, you will easily perceive, two journies cannot be made. The situation of the
In o Carolina
As to procuring a professor of languages, I can only advise that the enquiry should be kept up, and
as much of this as possible thrown upon the President, who indeed is
I wrote to you last about the 9h of February, I don't know whether you recd. the letter, it was intended to go by
P.S. The above letter contained ts for you. write me if you got it.