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Company, headed by {illegible: this?} {illegible: he?}
{illegible: Joy? Joyner?} who even he is who
wrote to us here, while is engaged
in buying up {illegible: Tilts? tills?} to lands
near our proposed site.

Barney no doubt told you,
as he has written me, that he
entered into a written agreement
with the agent of the Thompson
grant to buy the claim under
it at $1. per acre for account of
the University, & that he had
obtained the right to keep the
matter of the purchase open
until the next meeting of the
Board. This was all my will
& what he should have done
but I think it unsafe to let
the matter remain open. I have
{illegible: but? not?} {illegible: shall?} expect for the good
faith of many of your people
in the matter of written obligations
of this sort -- {illegible: ecce?} {illegible: Estill?} {illegible: Springs?} --

Company, headed by {illegible: this?} {illegible: he?}
{illegible: Joy? Joyner?} who even he is who
wrote to us here, while is engaged
in buying up {illegible: Tilts? tills?} to lands
near our proposed site.

Barney no doubt told you,
as he has written me, that he
entered into a written agreement
with the agent of the Thompson
grant to buy the claim under
it at $1. per acre per amount of
the University. & that he had
obtained the right to keep the
matter of the purchase open
until the next meeting of the
Board. This was all my will
& what he should have done
but I think it unsafe to let
the matter remain open. I have
not {illegible: shall?} expect for the good
faith of many of your people
in the matter of written obligations
of this sort -- {illegible: ecce?} {illegible: Estill?} {illegible: Springs?} --