444

Lebanon, Tennessee

6th Oct. 1860

My Dear Sir:

I have had the honor to
receive your invitation to be present
on the 10th inst. "at the lay-ing of the corner
stone of the principal building of the
University of the South."

I very much regret that my eng-
agements compel me to be home on
that day.

That you and the eminent scholars
with whom you are associated, may meet
with full and perfect success in the
noble work in which you are engaged,
must be the work of every man who truly
loves his country.

I hope to see a great seat of learning
at 'University Place'; a University{underlined} in truth;
a school from whose halls scholars{underlined},
in the reverent sense of the term, will