Dummer House Basingstoke

June 14

My dear Sir,

I hope Charlie has written to you today to give you an account of Highclere, where I took him and some of his companions on Saturday. The weather – had been so unsatisfactory that I had deferred my visit, and altho’ we found the American plants more magnificent than any I had before seen it was evident that they had suffered considerable damage from the heavy rains of last week – I was very glad to find that we had so pretty a country within eighteen miles of us –

Charles is going on very well in all respects, and I am happy to say that he makes a very good companion now to his school-fellows as I never hear any <ill.del.> complaints on either-side – I think that with a little help he makes out the Homer, as well as most boys, I felt disposed to try it with him as I think that it the different terminations make a boy use his mind more than adhering solely to the Attic dialect –

I beg to conclude with Compts & to remain Yours very truly

Ja^s A. Williams