
          a miserably unhealthy locality & though 
the "sickly season" has not begun it is often 
that I have 3 + 4 absent from a class 
of 8, on account of illness. I have packed 
two boys off home to recover. I loose about 
one day in the week myself & am half 
sick the rest of the time. Bilions [Billions] troubles 
prevail & I dont like to think what a 
time we shall have here in August.

I wrote you in my last the most encouraging 
account that circumstances 
would admit of. I have no fault to 
find with the faculty & students. They 
are both quite as I could wish, but the 
powers above us above us treat us with absolute 
neglect. The Governor was here a few 
weeks ago & said that the members of 
the Administration would meet the [last?] 
of this month in Detroit & see what could 
be done for us. They met & didnt "see" anything 
but to see who would get renominated.
So we shall know nothing until late in 
July when they meet again. Then I 
have no confidence in the permanence 
of the institution. There is a strong 
influence at work against it from 
the University at Ann Arbor. If any 
money is to be given for such purposes 
they wish it. It is currently reported,
with what truth I dont pretend to know 
enough of local matters to judge, that 
the Dept. of Public Instruction who lives 
at Ann Arbor is under this influence 
& wishes to break up the College. 
        