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{illegible} {the?} Oct 9th 1860

Rt. Rev. JHOtey. Chairman

Dear Sir

The card of invitation
to be present at the most interesting
ceremony of laying the corner stone
of the new University which you
so kindly honored me with, had
been forwarded from Augusta
Geo. & has reached me only within
a day or two, I have just
returned from Europe, & shall
not be able to return South for a
month. If I had been in
Georgia I should have made
a point of being at Sewanee