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Title
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John McDonogh to Walter Lowrie
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Description
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"In relation to our sons...your letter has given me unspeakable pleasure, and gratification to know that they bid fair with God's blessing, to become all we anticipated, or hoped, fills me with joy and delight."
John says that although Washington is dull, compared with David, "he has many sterling points of character, which will make him useful, and respectable in life...his disposition is amicable: with a good deal of calm patience and perseverance, which will carry him forward with increasing strength."
By next Spring, Washington will be fully prepared to take charge of a school in Africa.
"David I trust, will become great in the "Regeneration of Africa" as soon as his Education is completed where he is; we will perfect him at Princeton, in the Hebrew and Arabic."
Lowrie entrusts David with fifty dollars, "twas a proof of the confidence shown him, which he will remember, and which will stimulate him, by the conduct of his future life, to merit."
John encloses a check of two hundred and thirty dollars.
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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
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Identifier
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54
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Date
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1841-11-12 00:00:00
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Subject
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John has great hopes for David and Washington's futures.
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Creator
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John
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Format
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