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LETTER XV.

I have just received your letter of the 2d. Enclosed
you have ten dollars, out of which you will reimburse
Dr. Haller the price of the hat which he was so good
as to procure for you when yours was stolen. If you are in
want of shoes, get a pair, and divide what may remain of the
money with Tudor. In your next, let me know the number
of lessons, &c., which you daily perform, and the masters
to whom you recite; or, rather, a description of your
studies for a week, under the several heads of Greek, Latin,
French, mathematics, &c. I am sorry, my dear boy,
that you should write merely from a sense of duty; but I
hope you will not always be as destitute of matter worth
communicating as you now represent yourself to be, and as
I feel to be my own case. I am quite alone, and obliged to
do great violence to my inclination in continuing to endure
the privation of your and Tudor's society; but the consideration
of your advantage prevails over my own gratification.
Farewell, my dear boys: may you answer and ever exceed
the expectations of your fond uncle,

JOHN RANDOLPH.

T. B. Dudley.

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Have you heard lately from your father or mother? Sally
is well: Hodijah has not yet come up.