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{in a different hand: Green Papers Box 2 Folder 14}
TO THE HON. JAMES LYONS, Rector of William and Mary College, Richmond, VA.:
The Undersigned, profoundly interested in the Union of William and Mary College of Virginia with the University of the South, the proposal of which was duly presented you during the past winter, desire to supplement that proposal by the following statement:--
The University of the South is the joint property of the following Dioceses of the Southern Branch of the Anglo-American Church, viz: - North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, the Missionary Districts of Western and Northern Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. The remaining Southern Dioceses, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missiouri, may enter into joint ownership whenever they see fit.
The University is designed to be in all respects a University; and nothing but the pecuniary depression of the Dioceses since the War has hitherto prevented the full realization of this design which in a few years will no doubt be an assured, if not an accomplished fact.
Perfect freedom will be given to research; but this freedom will be exercised in an atmosphere of Historical Christianity, represented by the American Branch of the Anglican Communion as it exists in the Dioceses of the Southern States, and which is indebted under God for her first foundation, and a long continuance of nursing care and protection to that Church of England which founded William and Mary College.
T.B. Lyman Asst. Bp. of N. Carolina