July 15

We, the subscribers to the Dalhousie Library, most gratefully approach your Excellency and greet with satisfaction your endeavours to promote education and other internal improvements of the Province - and we sincerely deprecate the conduct of those who appear to thwart those designes, and who are otherways loaded withy evele presentments, and seemingly do not appreciate the benefits they enjoy.

We esteem and gratefully acknowledge our happiness in being within the pale of an inestimable constitution and deem it an honour to be born under it - a blessing to live under it - and a glory to defend and support it - and from which we never will be estranged.

As it is our own ardent desire to promote, and support British feelings---and in order to enable the inhabitants of this settlement to retain what knowledge they have, and secure to our offspring the means of acquiring that degree of knowledge calculated to fit them for the incumbent duties of man, and of Bretons - we have established a Library in the Township of Dalhousie, and as we still lack books and have not pecuniary means to purchase them - we trust that your Excellency will not consider this application for a donation of books and other ways an imposition on your goodness, as our view is to cultivate sincerity, truth, justice and humanity - and check in the bud every propensity to foly or vice - and to root out every mean selfish and ungenerous sentement - therefore your Excellency's permission to place your honoured name on the list of patrons shall even call for the zeal and gratitude of