I had hoped that you would be able to run down and look over the property of the School for the Feeble Minded before the special session. I fear that it is too late now to ask you, but I would be delighted if you could come down, spend the night with me and go out to see the school. If you can not do this, I would like to discuss the matter with you before or soon after the General Assembly convenes. This institution is not only of great concern to the State but in a special sense to this community, and I am most anxious that the General Assembly should act wisely in reference to it.

Senator Ward and I went over the property yesterday and he thought that a message from you to the Assembly would probably relieve that body of any uncertainty as to what should be done. It was his view also that it might be well, if it pleased you, for me to discuss it with you that you might know the views of the community in reference to it before determining the course that you would deem advisable for the General Assembly to adopt in reference to the institution. Dr Hardy had suggested some time ago that he would like very much for you to visit the school and, I think, suggested that I write and specially invite you for him, but I had in some way inadvertently failed to do so.

If you find that you can not come down, then I would run up to Raleigh to discuss the matter with you at any time that it would meet your convenience for me to do so.

I hope that your son has entirely recovered and that all are well.