I have received your letter of the 11th., and will not disguise the fact, that notwithstanding my sympathy with the considerations, which might have deprived the University of your valuable services, I learn with satisfaction, that the danger has not been realized; and I hope experience will prove, that the mountain climate is less charged with rheumatic tendencies than occurred to you in your anxiety for the health of Mrs Dunglison

I am very desirous of giving on the approaching occasion" (of the meeting of the visitors at the University) "an attendance, which cannot be often, if at all, repeated. But the effort, I fear, will not be permitted by the decrepit state of my health. In case of its sufficient improvement, my inclination will insure a fulfilment of my duty. Be the event as it may, I beg you to be assured of my great esteem, and of the interest which Mrs Madison jointly with myself feel in your and Mrs Dunglison’s health and happiness.