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until I can make up the sum from my wages. I hope no offence was taken at the tone or contents of my letter of Aug. 9th, to which I have as yet received no reply. I hope & expect that all honest claims against me will be honorably discharged, and without involving others: but demands so plainly unreasonable, and which I supposed withdrawn, are certainly vexations to a young man in my situation; and I felt that a remonstrance ought to be heard and answered With Consideration & respect, I.S. Metcalf To neither of these letters have I ever received any reply. Except that through you of Nov. 11th. Jos. McKeen Esq. failed in his duty, to me at least, outrageously, that he did not lay these letters, the first especially, before the "Govt." Was the man afraid to? It might not do him any good for me to write to the Prest. and he be obliged to produce my letters as he would be. Had I better write to Rev. Leonard Woods D.D. Presdt &c.&c.? I was not intending to have any more special communication with the gentleman, until I became approximately as Aristocratic as himself. With the good blessing of Heaven it will not take very many years to get my head as far out of the mud as some of his particular friends among my classmates will be out of the gutter. -- "perhaps.' Excuse the first half of the other sheet: it was written while I was still suffering under the horrid unclear, from which I have not yet fulled recovered health & strength. I transcribed copies of those letters to McKeen that you might see the real state of his case: though you could not understand it fully without far too extended explanation. I think I have kept myself straight through the business. Think I was in College free from that so general boyish prejudice & quarrel of students against their Tutors & Officers. I did not require those artifices used so much in getting along with boys. Endeavored to treat all officers of College &c. as a gentleman and as a school boy. To be sure when Old Prof. Cleaveland pounced upon me in one of his hypo fits; I did not tremble into the dust before his mighty presence, and then sneak off & make sport & difficulty if possible about it. but I rose & answered him boldly & promptly, with the respect due to his age & dignity, but considering him as only a Man and one who happened to in error, fairly bearded the Old Lion in his own den.