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Ebenezer Memphis Jan. 12, 1857.
My dear Sanders,
Yours of Dec. 31 is just to hand. The roads between there & Chattanooga have been so bad that great delays in the transmission of letters has taken place. I suppose your letter has in this way been detained. Your previous communication enclosing twenty dollars in redemption of my pledge to the [Dom. Com.?] came to hand some days previously. I very willingly accede to the suggestions made concerning Mr [Mowbray?]'s examination and hereby appoint [such day & place?] as shall be agreed on between Mssrs [Humes?] & [Gay?], whom I appoint the examining [Presbyter?]-and Mr Mowbray himself. I thus leave the time & place open to arrangements for the conveniance of Mr. M. & of the Examining Com. I could myself make the appointment, but deem their plan the better one, all things considered. You will be kind enough to inform Mr. M. of this, & ask him to adjust the matter with Mr [Humes?], Mr [Gay?] by correspondence. But now let me make a suggestion. After Mr. M. is examined by Mssrs Gay & Humes. I shall have myself to examine him before ordination on his theological studies. The canon makes it my express duty. And therefore I do not see that he will gain anything by seeking an examination from the Presbyters now or at any time previous to his