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which he can rise to be a good, useful and prosperous citizen.

I should not advise taking Claude from his work immediately. He must be told what he must conquer before he shall be regarded as able to do what is required of him in an office. It will take six months of harder work than he has been doing the last two years to prepare himself for different employment. He must have much backbone, stick-toitiveness (pertinacity) in studying. I shall help him all I can. Claude, I believe, is a bright boy. He is not a mature fellow for his age. He does not see the proper perspective in things. He lacks judgment & concentration of purpose. If, when he once begins to