It affords me great pleasure to inform you & your excellent Lady of the honor confered on you by the Sunday School Children of this city. For two or three weeks past I have been holding a series of meetings for their special benefit, & to awaken an interest, in their young minds, in behalf of the thousands of children in our country, who are destitute of all means of instruction, both literary & religious. I am happy to say, my labors have not been altogether in vain—nearly $150.00 having been voluntarily contributed by my young friends for the establishment of Sunday-schools in the West & south West.

At a large & crowded meeting held yesterday afternoon, at the S[unday].S[chool].1 Depository in Chalmer’s st., it was proposed to the little folks as a mark of their respect, to appropriate Sixty Dollars of their contributions towards constituting yourself & Mrs. Polk, Life Members of the Am. Sunday School Union. This was unanimously agreed to, and could you, Sir, have seen the array of little hands, the bright faces & the sparkling eyes, when it was said “all in favor of this proposition hold up your hands”—you could not have been otherwise than amused & delighted—you would not have considered it by any means the smallest of the honors confered on you by the citizens of Charleston.

Permit me, sir, to add that this Institution numbers among its officers & Life Members, many of the most distinguished & best men of our country.

In a letter dated April 27, 1829, addressed to the Committee of Publication, Judge Bushrod Washington of Va., uses the following expression, in closing: “That Heaven may prosper the benevolent work in which the Sunday-school Union are engaged, so honorable to them, & so beneficial to our country, & to those particularly who are the objects of their solicitude, is the ardent prayer of their faithful friend & admirer.”

In a letter to the Cor. Sec., Chief Justice Marshall says—“No man estimates more highly than I do the real worth of your Society, or the intrinsic value of the objects it pursues. I am much, very much gratified at the success which has thus far attended its philanthropic, meritorious & well-directed labors. I hope & believe that the future will not form a contrast with the past.”

It will afford us great pleasure to increase our list, by the addition of your name & that of your Lady.