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Sept 11 8

James Brown Esq

Dear Sir

Of all my self imposed duties, that of asking for pecuniary aid to carry out the humane purposes of this Society, is to me the hardest, and most distasteful.

And yet, it must be done, no other person seeming willing to relieve me of it.
Nor is sympathy waiting on the part of the public; on the contrary, it is on the increase, for State after State is following our example: and but recently, a gentleman visited this office to arrange with me for the endowment by Will, of his entire fortune $200.000, to the Insitution.

I think I may confidently assert, that already three hundred & fifty thousand dollars are assured to it, but,