Excerpt from Virginia, Her Past and Her Future: An Address Delivered Before the Phoenix Society of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, A., February 23, 1852

Gentlemen: - Your note requesting a Copy of the address which I de livered, today, before the Phoenix Society, has been received. I am deeply sensible of the kind and generous feelings which have prompted both this request and the highly complimentary terms in which it has been com municated. It is from a grateful appreciation of those feelings, that I, in accordance with your desire, place the address at your disposal.

With thanks for the courteous manner in which your request has been communicated, and with the best wishes for the prosperity of your Society and the individual success and happiness of its members.

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