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Office Home Freed Children
Brooklyn April 20 1868

Bvt Brig Genl Chas H Howard
Asst Comr Bureau RF & AL

Dear Sir
I have the honor and pleasure to acknowledge your kind intentions toward this institution: as also your respect for its unworthy Supt. For some months to come it must of neccessity be difficult for us to raise money for the adequate support of this [[underlined]] asylum [[/underlined]]. But I am certain that eventually we shall be greatly benefited; by the agitations of the past winter relative to the managers & children at this Building. Any relief therefore which