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[[preprinted]] American Freedman's Union Commission, No. 30 Vesey Street. - [[strikethrough]] P.O. Box 6,733. [[/strikethrough]] LYMAN ABBOTT, Gen, Sec. J.M. McKIM, Cor. Sec. New York, ^[[Feby 6th]] 18^[[69]] [[/preprinted]] Mr John Kimball, Supt. &c. Sir, Your letter of the 4th inst. was sent home yesterday. I presume our teachers in Maryland have not understood that we would pay their salaries, for at first you remember we engaged to give only $10. and directed them to look to you for the other $10. promised for each month. If you will be kind enough to request them to make application here, we shall be glad to pay them at once. We have nothing I think to do with the books; the salaries are theirs to do with as they like; if they had sent to us for supplies for the schools we should