Roberts Vaux esq. Harrisburgh March 10, 1830
I owe you an apology for having so long delayed my acknowledgment of the receipt of your esteemed favor of the 9th of December last and of the small box made of a fragment of the Great Tree under the branches of which William Penn and the Indians held their first conference, which accompanied it together with the expression of sincere thanks for this token of your friendship and unmerited kindness
The box itself will be preserved with care and veneration; not only because I esteem it as a precious relic of that mute witness of an important event in the early history of the Commonwealth by which the foundation of the pacific government of William Penn was laid but also on account of its highly esteemed and much respected donor.
I have read with great satisfaction the 12th Annual report of the Controllers of the Public schools for the first district of Pennsylvania. It exhibits the most conclusive evidence, if such were wanting, of the entire practicability of the general diffusion of education throughout the state at an expense comparatively trifling.
To yourself and your associates, controllers of the public schools in your district, a large and lasting debt of public gratitude is due for your unremitting exertions in superintending and fostering, with so much care, the now flourishing institutions committed to your charge. The summit of my ambition, I assure you Sir, would be attained could I contribute in some small degree to extend blessings, similar to those which your institutions impart to every unlettered child in the Commonwealth. I trust Sir, you will consider this hasty scrawl as intended for no other eye than your own. I should have written immediately on the receipt of the box but for the last three months I have had scarcely a moment I could call my own, which must plead my excuse.
With sentiments of unfazed respect
I am very truly & sincerely
Your friend
Geo: Wolf