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Lebanon, Tennessee
6th Oct. 1860
My Dear Sir:
I have had the honor to receive your invitation to be present on the 10th inst. "at the laying of the corner stone of the principal building of the University of the South."
I very much regret that my engagements compel me to be at home on that day.
That you and the eminent scholars with whom you are associated, may meet with full and perfect success in the noble work in which you are engaged, must be the wish of every man who truly loves his country.
I hope to see a great deal of learning at 'University Place'; a University {underlined} in truth; a school from whose Halls Scholars {underlined} in the severest sense of the turn, will
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be sent forth; a college whose {illegible} will fill the high places of State and be leaders of Public Offices; an Institution where the youth of the South may be thoroughly fitted and prepared for the duties and responsibilities of Citizenship.
I pray you, Bishop, to receive assurances of my perfect respect.
John K. Howard
Rev. James H. Otey, University Place