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Bishop Polk to Bishop Elliott

New Orleans, May 18, 1857

you could come to us in the mountains. Your railroad are so abundant and ____
______ you could get your people together at that point and could be with
us so as to spend the time preparatory to the meeting very pleasantly in roaming
over the mountain. It would also do your health good – and do all of us good.
I trust you may see your way to get through with the whole matter and come. I
shall go with Otey to Lookout Mountain to make arrangements for the meeting and
through the mountains generally to collect information as such and back to Lookout
Mountain by the ___ to tell all we have learned.

Mrs. Polk and my girls are going up the the {sic} Louisiana delegation at the last
of June to be there in time for the 4th. I shall spend the summer in the mountains
where my family are counting on your bringing Mrs. Elliott and the boys up with you.
Please present our kind regards to her and say that we are counting on the pleasure
of seeing her. I wish too that Potter and his wife would come to the meeting from
Philadelphia. He promised if our families were there, he would come. Now my
dear Elliott, it would never do for you to __________ on that promise.

Let me hear from you in answer to this in care of John San _____, Chattanooga.