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[[preprinted]] 87 [[/preprinted]] Washington D.C. June [[?]] 1867 Capt Lawrence Sir I have seen some of the parties in Baltimore. & after consultation I recommend that you have Mr Key deed that land to the School Board for a Public Free Colored School forever. if the Board will [[accept?]] the trust If not that you [[?]] have him deed to the Colored men selected by him to be held by then & their successors forever for the same purpose & no other. But I strongly urge the deeding to the School board. if the colored people will take hold & do in the erecting & carrying on of the school equally well as if it was deed to some of their own