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{illegible: W. Turnbridge.?}

Washington D.C.

October 9h 1860.

Dear Sir,

It is with
great regret that I find
myself unable to accept
the polite invitation of
the Executive Committee
to be present on the occasion
of the ceremony of laying
the Corner Stone of the
principal building of the
University of the South.

Having but recently
returned to this city, after
an absence of several