Autograph letter signed : Gravesend, to an unidentified recipient, 1728 September 5.

Concerning his plans to found a college in Bermuda; writing that the brief time he stayed in London after his return from Ireland was "spent in such a hurry of business" that he was unable to meet with many of his patrons and friends, "which must be my apology for taking this method of paying my duty to your Lordship whom I beg leave to inform that to morrow with the blessing of God I shall set sail to Rhode Island near new England"; explaining that he intends to buy land in Rhode Island in order to supply the college with "such necessaries as are not the product of Bermuda which will in a good measure remove one principal objection to the Success of our design"; telling his correspondent that he has left the money from the subscribers to the project with a banker, Mr. Hoar[d], payable to Robert Clayton, with whom Berkeley has also left "the patent for receiving the £20000 from St. Christopher's"; writing that he intends to stay in Rhode Island until Clayton receives this money and is able to come to Bermuda with his and Berkeley's associates: "Going to Bermuda without either money or associates I cou'd not think of. I shou'd have made but a bad figure and done no good"; adding that he thinks it's better for him to go to America immediately "where I can see things with my own eyes and prepare matters for the rendering our college more useful"; asking for his correspondent's "protection & prayers."