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but will have it ready for the meeting
at New Orleans in Feb.

In addition to the amount of matter
we had collected at the last meeting
we have received a large amt.
from England & have obtained
also the plans &c of all we own
in [?] [?] in this Country. Thinking
we might find advantage in
the actual inspection of the
working of existing institutions
in this Country I deemed it
proper to avail of the [?] I
had before & after Convention to
visit those most entitled to
consideration. I was therefore at
Chapel Hill. The University of Va,
the Va. Mil. Inst., Harvard, &