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No. 184 University of the South
I John Armfield of the county of Grundy (st of) Tennessee hereby make a subscription in favor of the University of the South (an institution duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee) of the sum of twenty five thousand dollars. (pble?) to the treasurer of said University for the Diocese of Tennessee or to his [?] as follows. 1st the sum subscribed when paid to be held in trust for awaiting in building & keeping in repair the buildings of the university of the South. now located in the Cumberland Mountains in Franklin County Tennessee on the Sewanee Railroad. 2nd said sum to be paid in annual installments of one thousand dollars cash. the first to be made ten days after the commencement of the buildings of said University. 3rd this subscription to be null & void upon the happening of any of the following contingencies [??] the change of the location, the dissolution of the corporation, the [??] delay of the work, the improper use of funds or the change of plans so as to make it other than one of the first clap institutions of learning in the United States.

Dated New Orleans 4th Jany 1859 [?] my hand [?]
(signed) John Armfield