Seminary, Wednesday, January 11, 1860.
Dear General:
. . . I will receive all who apply whether appointed or not, and would suggest
that you send me a few blank appointments. This idea is suggested by the fact
that a young man named Stokes rode one hundred twenty-five miles from Monroe on
horseback simply to find out whether it “am a fact” that such an institution
was in existence. He brought the enclosed letter. I tried to prevail on him to
stay but he was ordered to return. I wrote Mr. Noble to send him back forthwith
with two hundred dollars. He thought he could go and return in seven days but I
allow ten. . .
SOURCE: Walter L. Fleming, General W.T. Sherman
as College President, p. 107
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