Vault Early Papers of the University Box 1 Document Cornerstone Invitation 87

COTTON FACTORS GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS

Office of Pickett, Wormeley & Co.

Memphis, Tenn Octo 6 1860

Rt Rev. Jas H Otey Chairman &c University Place Ten

Dear Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge an invitation from you to be present on the occasion of the laying of the Corner Stone of "The University of the South" on the 10th Inst.

Entertaining the opinion that I do of the importance of the Institution, it would give me great pleasure to witness the Contemplated Cermonies--but a pressure of business on hand, together with sickness in my family, precludes the possibility of my attendance

Very Resply

Yr. Obt. Svt.

W. S. Pickett