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[[underlined]] Wm Evans. Jr. [[/underlined]]
[[strikethrough]] Feb 8" [[/strikethrough]]
Jany 8/66

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price not [[underlined]] exceeding [[/underlined]] four hundred dollars, and shall depend upon your using all your influence private and official to make this sum as much [[underlined]] less [[/underlined]] as can be done. Purchase them in the name of Philip C. Ganett, Chairman of Instruction Com of Friend's Freedmen's Association of Philada. and be kind enough to notify me when the matter is accomplished.

I hope Dr. Rhoads and myself will be able shortly to see you

In much haste I am
Very respectfully thy frd.
[[signature]] Wm Evans Jr [[/signature]]
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Transcription Notes:
inverted text transcribed on page 11 surname Gannett or Garrett?