Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

I am greatly obliged for your three letters of the 3, 11, & 17th Ulto, & am happy to find that my son has entered the University for the residue of the year, & that by the aid of your judicious efforts, the Institution at W. Point will be open to receive him next June.—I continue to prefer that Institution to any other, under the belief that its peculiar regulations & discipline must conduce most essentially to the benefit of a boy of Grays disposition & temper; but on this subject I beg you not withold from me your real & unreserved sentiments, to which I shall be disposed to pay more deference than to my own view.—For the gratification of my Son & of us all, so deeply interested in his happiness, I have consented that he shall visit us in Decr, & by that rout, whether by land or water, which you may deem the most eligible, it being impossible for Mrs Skipwith & myself, under our present pecuniary embarrasments, to indulge the strongest wishes of our hearts, which would be not only to visit, but to close the little remnant of our earthly career near you, & the Tucker, Cabell, & Faulcon Families.—We have had the wettest Spring & Summer I ever witnessed in any Climate. Our Cotton crops have consequently been materially injured; but we are encouraged with the prospect of good markets, & of less rot in Cotton than in the last years Crop. I rejoice to find the same revived prospects with you.—Mrs S. joins me in prayers for the prolongation & happiness of your distinguished & useful life, & in offering to your Lady & Family our most affectionate respects.