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energies of two masters and a tutor to attend
to 75 boys. It [will?] be considerably more work
than I am now attempting and I fear my
health and strength might fail me. The
work of all sorts connected with the
beginning of a school is neccesarily very great.

These and other matters unnecessary to
trouble you with weigh with me in
declining this offer on many accounts so
extremely attractive to me.

It is with sincere regret that I refuse
this kind invitation to return to the
South which I feel to be proper home.
Nothing but my attachment to [D loit?]
and his brother could have brought me so
far North after all that has happened.

This school, however, though in New
England is I [ ?] to say [act ] of it.
The whole tone given to it by its head
is a [?] a [g?] New England
Puritanism both in Church and State.

As to the Southern University,