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Brunswick - Oct. 2. 1835
To the Rev. Leonard Woods
Sir - I have just
had the pleasure reading your letter to
Professor Newman in reference to my con-
templated removal to Andover. I have sup-
posed that it might be proper for me to
make a more formal application to you
as the President of the Institution, to be ad-
mitted to its privileges, which I would now
do.

I understand from Mr. Neuman, that he has
stated to you many of the circumstancy of my
case. Taking into view my age - the fact that
I have a wife and two children - the state of my
finances and the general habits of mind, which I
have confronted in the practice of the law. I
am entirely satisfied myself and my friends here
generally concur in the opinion, that it will
not be advisable for me to attempt a full
course of three years at your seminary -
I graduated in 1817 at the college here while
very young (being only 16) and was engaged for
four years afterwards in the business of instruct-
ing in the Latin & Greek languages principally -
Since that time I have had nothing to do
with the Greek whatever, but have been able