
          Albany May 27. 1825.

My Dear Sir,

I am now here on a tour to
the west. My health has been more
miserable since I wrote you, & my friends
think I must journey rather than go to
W. Point, & confine myself to that examination.
Still I intend to be with you
a part of the time, if health will permit.
And now what I wish is, that you would
write me, & direct your letter to me here 
& let me know how long the Committee
or Board of Visitors will stay with you.
After they have been with you two or three
days, & perhaps sooner, you will be able
I hope to tell me your plan of conducting
the examination, & how long the
Visitors will stay, so that I may know
whether it will avail anything for me
to come on, when I return here. This
is the point _ & ^ [added: by] a letter here, I shall be
able to decide on my return. I hope
to be with you about four or five days
of the latter part of the time the
visitors stay with you.
        