We have read your published account of the School since its beginning it has confirmed our opinion that your whole Conduct has been with a view to Promote religion and the happiness of . mankind may God In whose holy worship you are attempting to instruct the uninformed Savages Crown all your endeavors with success and Give you to see the accomplishment of your Good work and when it shall Please him as the supreame disposer of all things may you depart hence in his peace

We are Reverend Sir &

REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO THE CORPORATION OF ALBANY.

: Lebanon 8th April 1768. W: pful and hon? Sirs

Yours of March 9 Came Safe to hand two days, ago, in which I observe and gratefully acknowledge the unmerited expressions of your benevolence and respects towards me and your truely

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generous dispositions towards this rising Institution.. I amsorry that my unguarded manner of expressing myself in a former letter respecting the objection so often made against fixing my school in the vicinity of your City (viz the bad morals of the place) was received in any other light than was simply and honestly intended : my design was only to advice you, that such an objection had been frequently and strongly urged ; and to Give you an opportunity to obviate the same's being further improved to the disadvantage of the design proposed I had not the least intention or disposition to reflect upon your City, or so much as express my own sentiments respecting that matter ; however the carless and ungaurded manner of my expression, naturally lead you to conceive, that which was very different from that entire friendship which wolly Governed me in, that matter, and which was so far from my intention that I never hada tho't or the least jealousy of my being so. understood, till I was informed of it by my Son, and since more fully by Mt Smith of New York, However I hope-that matter is now set right, and that you will Candidly ascribe it to that Crow'd of affairs, which obliges me relying upon the goodness of those to whom, I write, often to dismiss even Letters of iniportance, without such a review as I should otherwise think expedient. *