BRANCH
OFFICE and YARDS
AT
CARRABELLE, FLA.
AND
TAMPA, FLA.
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H. L. COVINGTON.
President.
B. F. BULLARD,
Vice-President.
O. M. COVINGTON,
Secretary.
IF -A.CTOIR,S,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND WHOLESALE GROCERS.
Pensacola, Fla., VeC . 30, 1901.
PRESIDENT STETSON UNIVERSITY,
D e L a n d , Pla.
DEAR SIR:-
I received your
in reply to my letter of re
my son Charles to you. As
about 16 years old- will be
very poorly advanced indeed
preferring to play, frolic
and seemed to have a perfec
in the country for the past
letter and catalogue of your school
cent date, and have decided to send
stated in my first letter, he is
on the 28th of Peb. next- and very,
for his age. He has been rather wild, p
and smoke cigarettes rather than study,
t diversion to school, and I have had him
12 months helping to make turpentine.
Turn him over
where he belomgs in his
which I shall very $uch
to your board of *xaminars and place him
studies, and do the best you can with him,
appreciate. I refer you to Rev. J. C.
Porter, of Orlando, whom I am personally acquainted with, and must
say too for him that it
sending my boy to you.
was through his influence that I am
The boy promises to do his best to apply himself,
though I fear he will find it a very hard task as that seems to
have been his trouble, the want of application and the knowing-
how to study. I shall be thankful, too, if you will endeavor
to associate him with some yo*ung man in the school room or dormitory who would have an influence over him for good. He is a btsy
that is easily influenced, at least he seemed to be easily influence
to go a little wild, but I feel sure that he is going to make an
effort to do what is right and proper. He is, however, I fear,
■very self-willed, which I trust can be gotten out of him to some
extent.
If, at any time, he should not conduct himself properly,
use your best efforts on him and let me know what the trouble is and
I will see if I can keep him straight.
Yours truly,
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