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{illegible} Norfolk Va.

Oct 4th, 1860.

Rt Rev'd. &

Dear Sir,

Your polite favor of the
5th ult, has just reached me, and in
reply beg to say that duty at home
will prevent me from being present on
the deeply interesting occasion of
laying the Corner Stone of the principal building
of the Uni'y South. I much regret this,
for I regard the founding of this institu=
=tion as the dawn of a new era in the moral