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[[preprinted]] STEPHEN COLWELL, Pres. FRANCIS R. COPE, Vice-Pres. ELLIS YARNALL, Rec. Sec. ROBERT R. CORSON, Cor. Sec. E. W. CLARK, Treasurer, 35 South Third Street. PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH AMERICAN FREEDMEN'S UNION COMMISSION, No. 711 SANSOM STREET. Philadelphia, ^[[Dec 19th]] 186^[[8]] [[/preprinted]] Dear Mr Kimball, I wish you would send me transportation for Phenia Lewis from Montrose Pa to Okolona Miss. at [[underlined]] once. [[/underlined]] She wants to go and the school there is [[underlined]] crowded. [[/underlined]] I enclose application in case you require it, but as our Agent, you ought not to want it. I [[underlined]] can [[/underlined]] pay the teachers as you ask, but then will have to keep an a/c with each one which I did not want to do, and thought you had some Bureau fund from which this money might come. Can't you fix it that way? If not, I will pay as you wish. On Monday, we will send you a box of some little Christmas things for 13 of our Maryland schools, and will send direct, a small box to each of the following (5) [[underlined]] Sarah Mims [[/underlined]] Oakville, [[underlined]] Annie Cummings [[/underlined]] Sunderlandville, [[underlined]] Debbie Gordon [[/underlined]] Woodville, [[underlined]] Jane Knight [[/underlined]] Nottingham, [[underlined]] Mary A. Davenger [[/underlined]] Piscataway making
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