Talks of Maryville College and Professor Lamar during the war years, saying the College was broken up, but he remained. Speaks of a friendship with an unnamed wealthy planter who is an elder in a local Presbyterian Church and friends with the Speaker of the House and Governor Brownlow. Asks again for a letter of recommendation, saying the Universities, Colleges & Academies, & schools have all collapsed, & will have to be reorganized, & I want to assist in doing it. Also discusses his views of Reconstruction, arguing the matter of Reconstruction will involve a great many very nice points in law & in morals and in practicability also for what will work pretty well in one neighborhood will not reach the peculiarities of another.