1866/07/11, Walter Blair (page two)

have [love]. I trust also that, should he see you, he will bring back to me cheerful accounts of yourself. I have not been to Powatan or Amelia lately, but I believe that the families are well both at Dykland and Fighting Creek. Through them I have been happy to hear occasionally of your welfare, and I hope to continue to do so, and also that we shall have the pleasure of seeing you again in VA before very long. Mr. Holladay has in view to solicit some subscriptions in behalf of our college, and specifically for the ? of ? for the ?, ? two years, of a mathematical professor who is about to be elected. This is a matter of deep interest to us the friends of the college, and I may say also the friends of education; and if you can ? his object by any ? or introductions, you would be furthering what I can assume is a worthy cause and confer an obligaition whom many ?.

Very Truly and
? Walter Blair

Capt. Lewis S. Harvice, Kentucky