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tho' repeatedly waited on my Uncle, missed of seeing him, and was obliged to come out of town, without my Uncle's seeing the Indenture if not the letter; - they are left for his perusal: - my Father things it best to defer concluding on the first meeting, till his determ'n is known; and if he should decline joining in the [?] is full in sentiment of the expediency of his being one of the Trust: - consequently the meeting cannot be next week; - Tho' it is hardly possible to describe my Solicitude to see the Seminary open'd yet the same reason which prevents the meeting next week, makes it impossible to say with certainty when it will be; till my Uncle gives his answer, which I depend on very speedily, as Mr French proposes to go down on Monday, and in that care, will wait upon him. - I have said nothing of my being one of the honoured nine; because the prospect of its being my Uncle is so great I think it needless. IF my being out of that number would prevent my exerting my small powers to their utmost, for it's welfare I should be mortified; but I conclude it will not: - and to have more than three of the Family (and I could by no means be content to have it tho't I [devine?] a vacancy initiated for so) might be a disadvantae in the view of the World; it is now constructed on an open disinterested Man.. - such an one a, I think must silence the tongue of malice itself; and tho' in hardly any