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home any where ^[[insertion]] here [[/insertion]] with a young child —

The Father of the girl Sylvy is dead & his widow lives in Newbern N.C. & I understand is well off — & She I think is the proper person to take her & care for her. When Gen Sickles was our guest at commencement, he told me, it was for such cases among others that the Bureau was established

Will you aid by order or in any way, sending her to Newbern? She is a dead expense to us, & we have done for her all that we could, & more