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New Orleans May 27 1859
My dear Col
I hae paid your works for the $1500.
I hope you got an [?][?] your [?]. It is of the first importance we should know that [?] is complete by the time of the meeting of our board in August -the 10th-
I hope you will also have such cabins as [?] may think [?] & first up 1 since New [Yale?] by the time of the meeting.
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nothing expensive, but such as you spoke of, they might be useful or will be, for those who may wish to [?] a night [?][?][?].
Bp Otey said he will write you on his [?]
[?] [?] say $300,000 the Endowment or when we get the [?] $200,000 or most of it by the time of the meeting.
In health Yours [?][?]
L. Polk