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and attached friend and as
sociate the admirable Bishop
Elliott. My own visit to the
grounds intended for the great
University of the South was
the result of your dear husband's
kind partiality. The grand en
terprise itself was suggested by
his mind, and his extraordina-
ry influence and zeal had alrea
dy secured for it, within his own
diocese, half a million of dollars.
He brought with him to Sewanee,
at that time, a large box, entirely
filled with the results of correspon
dence with the leading men in Eu
rope and the scholastic institutions
of the old world, as well as the
laborious and thoroughly digested
places projected for the Southern
University, which, when completed,
was to the be the noblest and best en
dowed