Hezekiah Calvin, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1767 March 3
Date3 March, 1767
Call Number767203.1
abstractCalvin confesses his faults and asks to be given another trial at the school.
handwritingHandwriting is formal and clear.
paperSingle sheet is in good condition, with light staining and wear, and moderate creasing.
inkDark brown.
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Your goodness binds me to you in all thank‐
fulness, but how shall I, or in what Language or words shall
I express the sense of Gratitude due to your care and tenderness
who have all along laid so many obligations on me, so many and
in so high degree, that I may as well Number them, which is
as impossible as to declare their greatness and worth, and yet after
all these motives to good, sober, and Christian behavior, I should
behave in this manner, it is enough to plunge Mr. Wheelock
into a great grief, if an unfeigned promise of a good behaviour
would in anywise move you for a farther Trial and forgiveness
of all my misconducts.(I am sorry for my putting upon you
by Saying that I was a Devil after Mr. Wheelock, which I knew
not the meaning of at first) I would Most humbly beg it,—
And if there is no prospect of my doing any good to the
design you have in view, doing good to my Poor Brethren,
I desire to Leave this school, and not tarry to bring reproach upon this
design any more, I have brought too much already, this is
fulness, but how shall I, or in what Language or words shall
I express the sense of Gratitude due to your care and tenderness
who have all along laid so many obligations on me, so many and
in so high degree, that I may as well Number them, which is
as impossible as to declare their greatness and worth, and yet after
all these motives to good, sober, and Christian behavior, I should
behave in this manner, it is enough to plunge Mr. Wheelock
into a great grief, if an unfeigned promise of a good behaviour
would in anywise move you for a farther Trial and forgiveness
of all my misconducts.(I am sorry for my putting upon you
by Saying that I was a Devil after Mr. Wheelock, which I knew
not the meaning of at first) I would Most humbly beg it,—
And if there is no prospect of my doing any good to the
design you have in view, doing good to my Poor Brethren,
I desire to Leave this school, and not tarry to bring reproach upon this
design any more, I have brought too much already, this is
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