June 27
I can certainly give you credit about being a good boy writing home but yet I dont get so many letters, but from you but what I get time to read them half a dozen times over. I have one before me dated May 18th in which you express a dislike to study & seem to think you never was intended fr a literary character - that it was " a dreadful bore,, reviewing studies etc. At which I was very much astonished & wish to know what it means I thought you had always been fond of what might be to me literary pursuits. Tho' I think you have never decipher'd your mind just right & you have not the faculty of fixing your mind so long on any one thing as Joseph can as you might if you had not atton'd yourself very much to your detriment in so much desultory reading