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Please let him know how Charles Drake is doing at the Academy; Charles will visit Colonel Mansfield at West Point during the vacation; please be sure Charles is preparing himself for college. ; Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Regarding the account of Alexander Bruen. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

He and his brother-in-law, Mr. Phoenix, would like to send their sons to the Academy in Middletown. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Please work to improve his son's (Alfred Stanley) orthography (spelling). ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Regarding his son's (Thomas A. Cameron) expenses; has not heard from Partridge; please let him know how his son is doing.

Ephraim Talbot writes from Providence, Rhode Island, to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont, regarding his son, Henry J. Talbot; if Henry has made sufficient progress at Partridge's academy, please allow him to return home; but otherwise he does "not wish to see him as yet." ; Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Hopes his son, Daniel Pinckney Johnston, and D. C. Webb and Morton Waring have all arrived safely at the Academy; writes of his son's course of education; if his son is to march with the cadets to Plattsburgh, please see that he has the proper clothing; sends regards to his son. ; Mentions pedestrian excursions.

Accepts a position at the Academy as instructor to defray his expenses for attending. ; Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Aaron Hobart thanks Alden Partridge for the pamphlets (presumably about Partridge's academy in Norwich, Vermont) that were sent to him in Washington, D.C. ; Transcription by L. Gregory Curtis, NU'77, MSIA'07. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Regarding the appointment of Cadet (Michael F.?) Van De Venter as a lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Has never said anything to anyone injurious to Partridge; does not like the store and tailor monopolies there; thinks an officer of higher rank should superintend and be present there. ; Transcriptions may be subject to error. Dewitt Clinton was Governor of New York from 1817-1822.

Has receeived Partridge's "sketch" of principles to govern the academy and will bring them to Congress next session; his son has received an appointment to West Point and together they hope to visit in September. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Encloses copy of letter from academic staff to William Crawford (Secretary of War); directs as to underage cadet furloughs; regulations approved 3 January 1815 are suspended pending General Swift's opinion. ; Letter from Mansfield, Ellicot, Empie, Berard, Zoeller and Douglass enclosed. This letter protests allowing officers unassociated with the academy to draw cadets as assistants before they have completed their education. James Monroe (1758-1831) was the fifth president of the United States of America. Transcription by Mary Margaret Groberg. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's engineering and manufacturing development program for the F-22 aircraft, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the F-22 development program is meeting its performance, schedule, and cost goals; (2) whether the Air Force is likely to complete the development program as planned without exceeding the cost limitation established by the act; and (3) whether GAO had access to sufficient information to make informed judgments on matters covered in this report."