Kingham, Feb. 00, 0000 Dear Mr Vassar: I received your kind letter on Thursday last, but have been prevented answering it until the present time, having been in the meantime preparing for, and ultimately conducting the quarterly public examination of my school. I wished very much to write to you at once. Will you please excuse me that I did not. I thank you, Sir, for the Reports. I have read them with much interest. When I wrote you I thought that one could not enter your College without the