I long to get into the college, for it appears to me now as though I was not a member of college but fitting for college.

I hope next spring will soon come.
My whole journey from Charlestown here cost me L2 16_s._, and 4_d._, a great deal more than either you or I had calculated on.

I am sorry to be of so much trouble to you and the cause of so much anxiety in you and especially in mama.

I wish you to give my very affectionate love to my dear brothers, and tell them they must write me and not be homesick, but consider that I am farther from home than they are, 136 miles from home.
I remain Your ever affectionate son, S.F.B.

MORSE.
It would seem, from other letters which follow, that he had difficulty in keeping up with his class, and that he eventually dropped a class, for he did not graduate until 1810.