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of the officers, in accordance with your suggestion that supplies shd be given only in very urgent cases.

It has always been impossible to escape imposition. 

As to the Normal Schools; I suppose they will be really nothing more than common Schools of a higher grade than others, and I do not apprehend any antagonism.

Gen. Sewall is now in Maine, and Col. Ketchum has just returned from Texas. 

Please communicate with me freely at any time. 

Very truly Yours
E. Whittlesey 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. A. I. G.