Cornerstone Invitations

satisfy your Committee in regard to my skill & attainments as an Architect - & may - & I hope _will_ have a tendency to bias them in my favor -

I regret exceedingly my inability to meet them in Wednesday next - the more so as there are many points about my plans which I feared might be overlooked without a personal explanation - but as I am persuaded each design will meet with due consideration I feel perfectly safe in your hands -

Allow me to remain

Gent.

Your {most} {Obedient} {Servant}

E. G. Lind

Letter from E.G. Lind Oct. 6. 1860

Baltimore Md. 4th. Oct. 1860

[Gentn?]/

On returning to Bal[t?] last after a few [-weeks-?] days absence I found your kind invitation to attend the laying of the corner Stone of your new University - which I have great pleasure in accepting but as I am called away to Norfolk for a day or two to prepare for commencing a new Episcopal Church there - I may be delayed somewhat in reaching Tennessee - & therefore enclose one or two letters which have been kindly furnished me by friends - for your perusal - I can obtain any number of these recommendations - should the Committee desire them -

I shall leave here by

the afternoon Train on Saturday expect to be with you on Tuesday evening at latest -

I am [Gentn?]

Yours [mo?] [obedly?] E. [G?]. Lind

Letter of [E?].[G?]. Lind, accepting invitation to laying of Corner Stone. Oct. 4th 1860

C[?]ville

Dallas Co. Ala.

Sept. 28th 60

Mr Secretary

Dear Sir

Allow me thro' you to return my grateful acknowledgments to the Executive Committee for their kind invitation and to express my regret at not being at liberty to avail myself of the gratifying privilege it embodied.

I am Sir

Very {Respectfully}

Yrs

F. B. Lee

Secretary of The Executive Committee

Board Trustees

University of the South

University of Georgia

Athens Ga Oct. 2. 1860.

Rt. Rev. J. H. Otey

University Place Tenn

My dear Sir:

Your favor of the 5th ult. inviting me to be present at the laying of "the Corner Stone of the principal building of the University of the South" on the 10th inst. has just been received, having been, by mistake, addressed to me at Sparta.

It would give me great pleasure to be present at the highly interesting occasion of beginning an enterprize which is destined, I doubt not, to exert the most salutary influence upon American Civilization; but my engagements here are of so binding

a nature as to forbid my accepting your invitation. I can, therefore, only thank you, which I do most cordially, for teh honor of that invitation, and join my hearty wishes with those of all the friends of education in our country for the abundant prosperity of the great Institution, which you and your brethren are about to inaugurate.

I am

Most [?] Yr obt [?] R. M. Wh[?]

New Orleans Sept-21. 1860 Rt Rev. L, H Otey W.W L.L.D Dear Sir your kind note of invitation with "card" is just read. In reply I have to say that I am Obliged to deny myself the pleasure which I know its acceptance would afford me. Your obliged and [ ] L.H [

Dr Davis compliments to Bishop Otey & gratefully acknowledged his note of invitation to attend the interesting ceremonies of the 10th Inst.- connected with the "laying of the Corner Stone of the principal building of the University of the South"--

It would give him great pleasure to be present were he not prevented by the indisposition of some members of his family--

Very respectfully [?] [?] Davis

Lebanon Tennessee Oct 4. 1860

Rt. Rev. Jas H. Otey.

Dear Sir

Your favor of the 1st inst, inviting me to be present on the 10th [?] at the laying of the corner stone of the principal building of "the University of the South" is before me.

I must be permitted to return thanks to the Executive Committee for the kind invitation extended, and to you as their Chairman for the manner in which their wish is expressed.

It would afford me great pleasure to be in attendance upon the occasion, [?] of a ceremony which I feel wassured will be deeply interesting, but the condition of my health precludes even a hope of such a thing. I am confined to my bed & have been for several weeks passed. I am compelled on account of [?] [?] to employ an [?] in making this reply.

Very respectfully Yr. Obt. Svt.

F. R. Cossitt. by E. J. Golladay