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CHARITABLE DEPARTMENT

American Tract Society.
Instituted in Boston in 1814.
Committee of Charities.
REV. E. B. WEBB, D. D.
S. G. BOWDLEAR, ESQ.
REV. WILLIAM HAGUE, D. D.
REV. WILLIAM C. CHILD, Secretary.
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Tract House, 28 Cornhill, 
Boston, ^[[June 11th]] 186^[[6]]
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Mr. Kimble Esq

Dear Sir

Some little time since I wrote you that I had sent you a complete set of the educational books of the American Tract Society & requested your aid in distributing some of them among the freedmen in your particular charge.

The books, as I informed you in that communication, are considered, by good judges, admirably adapted to the wants of the colored people, & the introduction of them quite important. Maj. Genl. Howard warmly commends the enterprise of distributing them among the colored race. If schools desire to introduce them, we will furnish gratuitously as many as our means will allow. I send you a small package of them, which you can use as a beginning, & I will be glad