Autograph letter signed : Augusta, Georgia, to Rev. John H. Hopkins, Jr., 1865 Aug. 1.

Concerning the reunification of the northern and southern churches; writing at length about the institutional impact as well as the personal impact of the war; saying "I have taken the oath of allegiance and mean to keep it & I have advised my people to take it and to be good citizens and, above all, to do the best for the poor unfortunate negroes, whose future is dark & miserable beyond conception"; comparing Black Americans to Native Americans in a racist theory about extinction: "Already are they perishing by thousands and the whole race will now go out before civilisation [illegible] and competition, as the Indians are doing -- We can survive the change and one day flourish again, but not they; their fate is sealed"; referring to Puritanism; giving Hopkins permission to use his comments in any way he wishes; adding that he makes no apologies for his sermon at the funeral of Bishop Leonidas Polk; assuring him that despite their differences during the war, they have loved and respected one another and "I have not had one hard thought of you thro' all this bitter war ..."