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{in a different hand: Green Papers
Box 2 Folder 14}

TO THE
HON. JAMES LYONS,
Rector of William and Mary College,
Richmond, VA.:

The Undersigned, profoundly interested in the Union of
William and Mary College of Virginia with the University of the
South, the proposal of which was duly presented you during the
past winter, desire to supplement that proposal by the following
statement:--

The University of the South is the joint property of the follow-
ing Dioceses of the Southern Branch of the Anglo-American
Church, viz: - North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, the Missionary Districts
of Western and Northern Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
The remaining Southern Dioceses, Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missiouri, may enter into joint owner-
ship whenever they see fit.

The University is designed to be in all respects a University;
and nothing but the pecuniary depression of the Dioceses since
the War has hitherto prevented the full realization of this design
which in a few years will no doubt be an assured, if not an ac-
complished fact.

Perfect freedom will be given to research; but this freedom will
be exercised in an atmosphere of Historical Christianity, repre-
sented by the American Branch of the Anglican Communion as it
exists in the Dioceses of the Southern States, and which is in-
debted under God for her first foundation, and a long continuance
of nursing care and protection to that Church of England which founded William and Mary College.

T.B. Lyman
Asst. Bp. of N. Carolina