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a soul and a pocket-book large enough to make it possible to establish in the U.S. a school great in all the essentials of greatness; viz., a faculty not composed of a few drill masters but of a large body of advancers of knowledge, and a body of students not degraded by low requirements of admission or by mechanical [work?] but elevated and inspired by free opportunity to use the powers which heaven has given them under the leadership of men already celebrated for learning, but more celebrated in that they are still learners.
As a well wisher of the cause which you have espoused, allow me again to congratulate you on the inauguration of the great enterprise, and to hope that [ages?] hence a grateful posterity will regard with pride the Institution you are now rearing.
Very truly yours,
Charles De[Garmo?]
Student of Philos and Pedagogies