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Applies for the Professorship of Latin and sends letters of recommendation. [2 copies]

Contributes a quotation of Dr. Physic of Philadelphia, praising Dr. A.D. Galt, to her work on biographies of her father and grandfather. Will send her the genealogy of their family [that compiled by Dunlop?]. News of his family. His school is doing better than at the start of the War, when he was turned out of the Academy and it was made into a barracks. He edits the Norfolk Journal. Mentions Aunt Mary Anne, and Emily Christian.

Encloses additional letters recommending him for the Latin Professorship.

Requests that he return the letters recommending Galt, and suggests a method for their return. Disputes the grounds on which the choice of a Latin professor was made. [Note: There is also a copy of most of this letter.]

Notifies him that he is applying for the Professorship of Latin at the University.

Notifies him that he is a candidate for the Professorship of Latin at the University of Virginia. [Draft]

Notifies him that he intends to apply for the Professorship of Latin at the University.

Encloses letters from Dr. Gessner Harrison to be put before the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia as evidence of Dr. Harrison's regard for him.

concerning financial and management burdens of Belmead. He comments on the need of a "reliable labour-system" and the "abundant evidences that the negro will not furnish the desideratum."

This letter by William T. Somervell is addressed to Robert E. Lee. Somervell wishes to attend Washington College and asks for a circular, terms, and regulations for applying.