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FIRE, LIFE, RIVER AND RAIL INSURANCE, NO.4 MAXWELL HOUSE NASHVILLE, TENN., JUNE 25TH, 1873
Mr. H.N. Anderson [?] Sewanee Tenn
Dear Sir -
As your Board of trustees will hold their usual annual meeting in a few days: Mr Polk has requested me to write You and ask you to bring up before them, the subject of the note given by Bishop Polk for some money. (I do not know the particulars of the transaction) which he used for the a/c of the University - principally for preparing the corner Stone. Mr Polk is very anxious that something should be done to pay this note, at any - rate, no doubt You are better informed than I am, on the matter and will readily understand what is here meant - It seems that [some?] [man?] living at Sewanee at about the time of the laying the corner stone, had some money & wished to lend it, to the U of the South the Bishop took it and gave his note for it. The lender died or was killed during the war - and his heir at - law - has brought suit against some body, to secure the amount. Can You not get this matter settled?
Cholera leaving us - & confidence being returned
Very truly
W.D. Gale
