The Centenary of Louisville

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORRESPONDENCE. Louisville, Ky., April 24, 1880. Col. R. T. Durrett: Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Southern Historical Association, held last night, the undersigned were appointed a committee to invite you to read before our association, on next Saturday evening, May 1, 1880, at eight o'clock, a paper upon...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORRESPONDENCE. Louisville, Ky., April 24, 1880. Col. R. T. Durrett: Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Southern Historical Association, held last night, the undersigned were appointed a committee to invite you to read before our association, on next Saturday evening, May 1, 1880, at eight o'clock, a paper upon the settlement and early history of Louisville, that being the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of our city. This request has been made with a desire to preserve for our association and for history all the valuable facts and incidents upon the subject which you, with a taste for such matters, have collected during all the years of your residence in this city, eminently qualifying you for this duty. Earnestly hoping that you will accept the invitation it affords us so much pleasure to convey, we are, etc., Yours very truly, E. H. Mcdonald, John S. Jackman, R. H. Thompson, Committee. Louisville, Ky., April 24, 1880. Messrs. E. H. Mcdonald, J. S. Jackman, R. H. Thompson: Gentlemen: I have your communication of this morning, inviting me to read a paper before the Southern Historical Association next Saturday, the one hundredth anniversary of Louisville, as acentennial address. While I would have preferred, if your rules had permitted, to deliver an address to reading a paper, it nevertheless affords me great pleasure to accept the flattering invitation with which I am honored. Louisville for the last one hundred years is history, and yours being an historical association has very properly determined not to let its one hundredth anniversary pass without making it part of the society records. In the short time which I have I will, therefore, endeavor to prepare the best paper I can on Louisville for an hundred years, and read it before the Southern ...