Middletown, 21st May 1825.
Dear Mary,
Before you receive this your Aunt Willard will probably inform you that Mr. Starr and myself have calculated to be at the seminary when the examination takes place in August next. I have been so frequently disappointed that I am not very sanguine in any calculations that I can make nor would I have you mean too much upon it nor shall come if we can as for myself I intend to go there if anywhere. Tomorrow I expect to start for N. Haven not as a Representative but as a lobby member. The object in view is the location of th state prison in this Parish but of this more hereafter you will not I am confident you will not forget that Sin and Mercy have a necessary connection as well as Virtue and Happiness and that our duty and interest both require of us to live in this with reference to a future World.
Your Father with all that
The term imports,

Elisha Treat