ALS, 2pp (8 x 9.75 in.), West Point (NY), May 8, 1854. Written as Superintendent of West Point to W. Eugene Webster of Cedar Grove, VA, who also happened to be a cousin of his wife's (through her grandmother, her father, George Washington Parke Custis being the half-sibling of the cadet's mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stuart Webster, both children of Eleanor Clavert Custis Stuart). The accomp[anyin]g. letter & check of the Treasurer of the Acad[em]y. will answer your inquiries Concerning your pay for March & April. I am very Sorry to hear that your health is so feeble & still more regret the probability of its not allowing your return to the Acad[em]y. I would not advise its sacrifice for the gratification of any military aspiration, still I would advise you to weigh well the advantages of your App[ointmen]t. & Consult your father and mother before relinquishing it. Should you not be well to return by the 1st July, & there is a reasonalbe expectation of your becoming so by the 1st Sept; unless in the opinion of your father, mother & Phy[sicia]n. it would be imprudent to risk your resuming your duties; If you will send me the proper certificate of your Physician, an Army Surgeon would be the best; I will endeavor to get an extension of your leave. I must have it in proper time, to get the Sec[retar]ys action. I had hoped the climate of the South & particularly the inmates of Cedar Grove would have entirely relieved you of all Corporeal ills. I do not know what they would not cure me of if I was a young man again. Your Cousins may have gone to A_____ having been detained more than a month by the inability of the younger to travel. Another Cousin Ella Carter accomp[anie]d. them as far as Philadelphia. Please present my kind regards to your mother & all the household at Cedar Grove." Young Eugene does not appear to have returned, since the USMA Register of Graduates lists him as x1856. Condition: Expected folds. Toning mostly along the edges of the page. Docketing in another hand on verso along edge of page.
ALS, 2pp (8 x 9.75 in.), West Point (NY), May 8, 1854. Written as Superintendent of West Point to W. Eugene Webster of Cedar Grove, VA, who also happened to be a cousin of his wife's (through her grandmother, her father, George Washington Parke Custis being the half-sibling of the cadet's mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stuart Webster, both children of Eleanor Clavert Custis Stuart). The accomp[anyin]g. letter & check of the Treasurer of the Acad[em]y. will answer your inquiries Concerning your pay for March & April. I am very Sorry to hear that your health is so feeble & still more regret the probability of its not allowing your return to the Acad[em]y. I would not advise its sacrifice for the gratification of any military aspiration, still I would advise you to weigh well the advantages of your App[ointmen]t. & Consult your father and mother before relinquishing it. Should you not be well to return by the 1st July, & there is a reasonalbe expectation of your becoming so by the 1st Sept; unless in the opinion of your father, mother & Phy[sicia]n. it would be imprudent to risk your resuming your duties; If you will send me the proper certificate of your Physician, an Army Surgeon would be the best; I will endeavor to get an extension of your leave. I must have it in proper time, to get the Sec[retar]ys action. I had hoped the climate of the South & particularly the inmates of Cedar Grove would have entirely relieved you of all Corporeal ills. I do not know what they would not cure me of if I was a young man again. Your Cousins may have gone to A_____ having been detained more than a month by the inability of the younger to travel. Another Cousin Ella Carter accomp[anie]d. them as far as Philadelphia. Please present my kind regards to your mother & all the household at Cedar Grove." Young Eugene does not appear to have returned, since the USMA Register of Graduates lists him as x1856. Condition: Expected folds. Toning mostly along the edges of the page. Docketing in another hand on verso along edge of page.
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