ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 13,
1860.
DEAR DOCTOR: Your favor of — inst. was received by Saturday night's mail, and sent yesterday to the superintendent, both as more encouraging than your previous communication to him (which had made him very gloomy), and in order that he might cause to be prepared the copies you ask for, but which can hardly be got off, I expect, before next Saturday's mail. That which I have to copy from our minutes I know cannot, for I am greatly over-worked. I got up at three o'clock the other night, as I had very often to do, to write a letter of four pages to P.T—r, who had written me complaining of his son being arbitrarily spoken to.
By this boat, the “Perry,” goes a letter to Governor Moore advising him of the arrival of Mr. Roelofson, from whom I had obtained ten days . . . for Major Sherman to give him reply to the offer made him. I hope that you and the governor will have agreed to my suggestion. We will always regret it if we lose Major Sherman.
There is no more constitutional objection to changing the name of this school than there is to changing mine. The name was conferred by the act of 1853. A primary school as well as a university is a “Seminary of Learning.” Mr. Manning saw this very quickly on my showing him the constitution and the act, when he and I were discussing the draft I sent you. There is just as little constitutional objection to appropriating a portion of the common school fund to preparing teachers for the common schools; and that is the easiest fund to get the money from.
SOURCE: Walter L. Fleming, General W.T. Sherman as College President, p. 165-6
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