Transcribe Venable, Charles Scott. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-03-23)

to be built up by the Contribution of State and and private transificance. And that concentration is the law of that Higher Culture The legislature of 1866, with the state disrupted, bleeding and desolate, recognized the University as an essential event of the life of the Continous wealth and unserved the appropriation of $15000 for Autumn. Of the few men who had any money left at that time, Samuel Miller gave $100,000 And Thos. Johnson of Augusta Co $40,000 and other smaller sums. The Legislature of 1876 in the midst of the greatest financial depression has just doubled the Annuity making it $30,000