We only reached this place the day before yesterday in our way to Berkley we shall proceed tomorrow but the weather is so hot that I had like to have kill'd one or two of my Horses in getting here, and unless it should turn out cooler we must move on very slowly— Your Mama is certainly better and I have great reason to believe will be much benefited, if I find the Air to agree with her I shall not return till late in Octr.

     It has given me some uneasiness reflecting that you and your Felow students are liable to the draugh and not being able to hear how you have got that business setled, I wish you would take the airlyest oppertunity of writing to me in Berkley upon that subject and also to inform me whether the letters of credit I gave you answers the purpose of obtaining what cash is necessary to supply your wants— your Letters to Corbin and Augustine were deliver'd here and shall <be> safely delivered to them I wish you had wrote to me by the same conveyance as I should then have heard how you are of for cash and also whether you had laid a scheme for obtain a man to prevent the dainger of being draughted— I should be glad to hear from you, who you find your best Friends among the Citizens, and who are your most intimate friends among your fellow students— let no oppertunity slip of writing to me in Berkley, as it will give your mother and myself great pleasure to hear from you as often as possable— with respect to many things that you may have to communicate, they may be wrote at your leisure, so that a letter may be soon closed when an oppertunity offers— Mr Beall is the likelyest person to inform you of oppertunities of writing to Berkley— I am my dear Bushrod Your very aft. Father