An Obscure individual & in the interiour of our widely extended empire, presumes upon your indulgence & upon your goodness, in soliciting your advice & the aid of your opinion in the direction of his legal studies & political inquiries. The request is made with deference & not without a good deal of reluctance; but as the course of legal study which has been recommended to him by some of his legal friends in Kentucky does not wear a national aspect, & is rather calculated to form a local lawyer to move in a limited sphere not congenial with expanded nationality of feeling, he thinks it adviseable to avail himself of the assistance, while it may be had, of those luminaries in jurisprudence & in the Science of Politicks, who shone resplendently in the organization of a Government without a parallel in the records of the Universe.

For a course of legal & political study of the cast above intimated, & of such occasional & adjutory reading as necessary perhaps as Law itself to form an accomplished Lawyer; you shall receive the homage of a heart grateful not only for this good office but for the distinguished Services you have rendered to your Country & to mankind, in the various & dignified spheres in which you have moved with glory to our Common Country. With lasting consideration, Permit me to subscribe myself Yr. Very Hble. Servt.