I am greatly obliged, Gentlemen, by your kind Congratulations on my safe Arrival.

It gives me extreme Pleasure to find that Seminaries of Learning are increasing in America, and particularly that the University over which you preside continues to flourish. My best Wishes will always attend it.

The Instruction of Youth is one of the Employments which to the Public are most useful. It ought therefore to be esteem’d among the most honourable. Its successful Exercise does not however always meet with the Reward it merits, except in the Satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able Men for the Service of their Country.