Erosopihc Hall, December 11th, 1845. 

 Dear Sir : 



We have been appointed a Committee in bclialf of the Erosophic 



Society of the University of Alabama, to tender you their grateful acknowledg- 

 ments for the very able, appropriate, and deeply instructive Address, delivered bj 

 you before that Association on the occasion of its Fourteenth Anniversary, and to 

 request a copy of the same for publication. 



Permit us to add to the uja divided wishes of the body we represent, our personal 

 solicitations. 



We respectfully subscribe ourselves, 

 Your's, «Scc. 



N. ALFRED AGEE, 

 C. D. GRAHAM, 

 A. H. HOPE, 



Hon. B. F. Porter. 



> Com VI i 



(rentlemen : 



Your invitation, on the part of the Erosophic Society, to furnish a 

 copy of my Discourse, on the occasion of its Anniversary, for pubHcation, will be 

 iComplied with, as soon as I can have it copicd- 



Bc pleased to return my tlianks to the Society, for the gracious estimate placed on 

 that effort to serve its high interests; and receive, personally, the assurances of my 



Devoted respect, 



BENJAMIN F. PORTER. 

 Tl'scaloosa, 28th December, 1814. 



