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Scottsborough Sep'r 6th A.D. 1860.

Rev'd Bishop L. Polk

Sir,

If you will carry your recollection back
to the time that you was a school boy at Raleigh N.C. under the
care of Rev'd Wm. McPheters, you will remember the undersigned R. T. Scott,
a son of old Cap't Scott of Raleigh, I am a few years your senior
{scratched out: a few years}. Your brother Lucius is about my age. I met him some
years ago in Nashville and made myself known to him. Hearing
that you at this time, {insert symbol}was at Sewanee the site of the Episcopal College
{struckthrough: at the} South upon Cumberland Mountain Ten. I have concluded to
address you to ascertain the program of its future opperations. Do the
Trustees design, to lay off Sewanee in lots, and if so how are they
to be disposed of? I take it for granted that you will exercise some
care as the the antecedents and moral character of those who may wish
to settle said place, I can see the necessity of some arrangement of this
kind. I have a plesant situation in Jackson Co Ala about 40 miles
East of Huntsville, and about 1 1/2 miles from Scottsboro' on M&C. R.R.
But unfortunately for myself and family Society is not very good
and in my old age I would like to live in a more refined neighborhood
and I have selected Sewanee as my future residence if things should
give satisfaction. I have for some years been employed in the lumber
business, and have used up the most of my timber, I would move my
machinery to the mountain if it is well timbered, and then should be a