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U S Patent Office
Washington DC
June 17th 1867

Rev John Kimball
Chaplain & Supt Schools
Bureau R F & A L

My dear Friend

There is a neighbourhood in Prince George Co Md. 16 miles from this city on the B&O RR. where a school for the Freedmen is very much needed but where they cannot either build a house or pay a teacher without aid from outside the neighbourhood

There is a free black woman some thirty years of age, unincumbered with either husband (!) or children, living in