I want to thank you for attending the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, and for the helpful suggestions. I would be glad if you would be studying over the question of how and in what order we are to receive inmates, if any changes are to be made in our present charter.

I am sorry the Board of Trustees adjourned without taking some definite action about the out standing accounts. It leaves me and the Executive Committee in an embarrassing position, and it seems to me that something out to be done. I would be glad if you would look at section 12 and see if you do not think it gives the Board of Trustees power to borrow money or give notes for accounts by the following: “To enter into and bind said institution by such compacts and engagements as they may deem advantageous, etc.” I would be glad if you would let me hear from you as soon as you can.

By the way, I have some good news for you. I have just returned from the Southern Sociological Congress at Atlanta, where I was hoping to see you, and while there I secured the services of Alexander Johnstone to give a week in North Carolina to make speeches in some of the most important towns in the state. I think he will do us a great deal of good by coming. Do you think the Board of Trustees will be willing to pay his expenses? If not, I have agreed to pay them myself.

With best wishes,