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FIRE, LIFE, RIVER AND RAIL INSURANCE,
NO.4 MAXWELL HOUSE
NASHVILLE, TENN., JUNE 25TH, 1873

Mr. H.N. Anderson [?]
Sewanee Tenn

Dear Sir -

As your Board of
trustees will hold their usual annual meeting in
a few days: Mr Polk has requested me to write
You and ask you to bring up before them, the subject
of the note given by Bishop Polk for some money. (I
do not know the particulars of the transaction) which
he used for the a/c of the University - principally for
preparing the corner Stone. Mr Polk is very anxious
that something should be done to pay this note, at any -
rate, no doubt You are better informed than I am, on
the matter and will readily understand what is here
meant - It seems that [some?] [man?] living at Sewanee
at about the time of the laying the corner stone, had
some money & wished to lend it, to the U of the South
the Bishop took it and gave his note for it. The lender
died or was killed during the war - and his heir at -
law - has brought suit against some body, to secure
the amount. Can You not get this matter settled?

Cholera leaving us - & confidence being returned

Very truly

W.D. Gale