| Dear Sir. | Richmond 31st Jany 1825 |
Intelligence has at last reached us, that the Competitor is not lost; it put into Plymonth in the gale, & was there on the 8th Decr We may expect the professors every day. The delay is vexatious, but less distressing than the loss of the professors would have been.
F.W. Gilmer
MoSHi: Francis Walker Gilmer Papers.