William T. Somervell to Robert E. Lee

You will do me great a great favor, by sending me a catalogue of the school, in which you are president, for I wish to go to college some where and do not know a place more calculated to suit the youth of the South, than the institution, in which General Lee presides. If you have no catalogue please inform me, what are the regulations & terms, what studies will have to be pursued, and what is the highest standard of graduation. By so doing you will make me very indebted to you. Sir, I am,

Yours,

Will T. Somervell.