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[[preprinted]] United States Sanitary Commission.
American Freedmans Union Commission,
No. 76 John Street. — P.O. Box 5,733.

LYMAN ABBOTT, Gen. Sec.
J.M. McKIM, Cor. Sec.

New York, ^[[Oct 20th]] 18^[[68.]] [[/preprinted]]

Mr Kimball.

Dear Sir,
I am now in New York, en route, for So. Carolina. I wrote to you twice once in August once in Sept, and received no answer. Then I wrote to Capt Laurence and received no answer. I then wrote to N. York, and the next day after I rec'd transportation papers from there. I rec'd them from Washington. I am sorry. I would have liked to have gone again to Millstone Landing.

There is a young man, Wm H. Foster of New Bedford, who has taught eleven