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Ja H. Otey Esq.

University Place

Franklin Co. Tenn

Dear Sir

Your invitation to
our senior to attend the ceremony
of laying the corner stone of the new
University is in our possession.

Mr. Barnstonff being
absent in Europe, we regret being
obliged to decline the same

Yours very truly

H Barnstorff, {illegible: Co?}

{illegible: Hochrader?}

New York 3 October 1860.