Vassar College. Ponghkeepsie, N.Y., April 10-th, 1868 Mr. Cyrus Swan Dear Sir. I have your duplicate letter sheets dated the 4**1 current, and at my first reading I thought to consign them were they in some respects properly belonged to the flames, but on the other hand in reading them over the second time I discovered here and there a kernal of wheat so submitting them to a winnowing pro- cess xxxxx^cxxxx I separated the "chaff" to find the substance, and it now allow me first to examine xxxxxxxxxx for I soberly think that your mental vision has blunted your understanding & Judgement and withered your sober Facultys, for you insist that there been "apparent coolness of attitude in me toward you for some time past" that you have "observed changes in my manner" he and you "want to know why all this"-- 1 have only to repeat what I said in my last letter, that this seeming coolness on my part lies at the door of your own distorted kind of despondency often renders vision, & may I not also say, that this xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx our judgment incorrect have I not seen you & your family pass my door for months without call- up yet ing or even looking at my house, but you add, I dont pay my respects by you or calling on your family (as usual) true, nor have I called on any relative 3S3 a By Apr, 10, 1868 - 2 during the same period, for the best of reasons, it is with difficulty I can get in or get out of Carrage & walking is out of the Question and if you had call** and seen me during the last 5/o 6 weeks confine- ment to my house either my Doctor or myself would have explained the cause, I am sorry that a mans physical infirmities should inure to his own-w%ii wrong doing, &c. Now with regard to our business connexion, allow me to state, that it is the first time in my life that I ever knew a mans contemplated failure of a voluntairey charity to a friend could he made available to his own con- demnation & dishonor, even if it were not fHl4fil4d,~ or peril his char- acter to "honorable obligation11 as a "breach of faith" What do you mean MfS. by saying that "promises upon the stren strength of which you had rendered me me "services" of a Nature you had never consented to render to another of which money in hand would be no adequate equi- valent" fkc This is extraordinary language and I do not understand your meaning, Will you please to name these "services,"- In looking over the several discharges by voucher & other evidences for services rendered of all kinds xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx & signed by you I find they cover very all professional as well as private dealings between us, up to ablate & professional period, amounting to several thousand dollars, since that time your, ser- a vices has been with other parties & not me, and then show large Bill for A----------------- 3S3 h 52: Apr. 10, 1868 - 3 services &c " You say "you have given me the best thought & hardest labors of your life11 relying with confidence amounting to certainty T,that you had provided & was in that in that way repaying me &c", but Mr Swan you have omited to state the many favors I had bestowed on you pecuniarily during your voyage & visit with me to Euprop in 1845 and on subsequent pleasureable excusions &c. What I had reference to in my last note of "standing by the College" through every immer- gency was simply this, that the College interest was my first interest, all other interest of every nature waa subordinate and if any thing should happen in my pecuniary affairs so that I could not carry out all with the College my plans & desires to my relatives & friends, the College would take the preferencethats all. Now how far these provisions which I have made can or will be carried out, must depend on contingencies* First, the ballance of the available funds xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I may have at the day of my Decease, second the amount of the "free time will offerings" of nay family connexions on that day^ thirdly, the needs of further advances to the College, all these things must be kept in the mind wether ray reputation as the Founder "of College" floats down with me him side by side or not &c 355 c .5# 1 jcbssba AteifM.-ejAj1 s^uauiaq.-Bi.s asaq:). jo xiq.njcq. 31$. oq. sb ^.tiasajcd aaaq:}. saaq.sna:x && jo Aub ^sb 'piajA o% pa-S-f[qo sbav I naqAV noA ^sxirieS^ sxhrpxaaj gueqxq: qqxfti apmxi saxfomp :j.san.rea jo poojj *e Aq paurnaAu:aAo ni*un Sxxiq.aaixi $-ex$ ^"B noA Aq p 004.5 pip J pjBog; q.mft jo s-b ^odaj: jjAa ^ pooS qnoj:q^. puaxjcj is Aq ptns^s pinoa xo ptp xaAa tibui on q/eqi- (pjnsog; aa^sn^x aq^. jo Sixx^aatxx %s*ej aqq. jo sxfrrjop aq^. oq. xajajc j pire) noA oq. A^s ara ^.aj -lau^I siqq. asojo o^ hbavx; jq^j * - 898T '01 ,J[dV