University of Virginia Library

Woodrow Wilson

It is with heartfelt regret that I find myself unable to attend the great
festival of the University.

I regard the University with genuine affection, recalling as I do with the
keenest interest and with many happy memories the profitable days I spent
on her lawns and in the stimulating class-room where we used to gather
about the great John B. Minor. He was a great teacher, and I hold myself
his permanent debtor.

May I not express the confident hope that, surrounded by her sons, the
University may take on new life?

With affectionate loyalty to the noble University;