Viewing page 3 of 246

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

All money letters, and letters concerning packages of clothing, &c., should be addressed to W.E. Whiting [[strikethrough]] 61 [[/strikethrough]] 53
John Street, New-York.
American Missionary Association
NO. [[strikethrough]] 61 [[/strikethrough]] 53 JOHN STREET,
New-York, Sept 20. 1866.

Secs. }
Rev. Geo. Whipple }
Rev. M.E. Strieby }

[[strikethrough]] 
W.E. Whiting, Asst. Treas.

G.L. Eberhart
Supt Education
Bureau R.F. & A.L.
State of Georgia,

Sir,
I have the honor to state that the American Missionary Association proposes to establish a permanent graded and Normal School for Freedmen at Augusta, & to request that you will in behalf of the Association ask permission of the proper authorities of the Bureau for the Association to purchase that portion of confiscated land in connection with the Confederate Machine works which lies South West of the canal in Augusta Georgia & such buildings belonging to the Bureau as are now standing upon it; for the sum of Four Hundred and Twenty Five Dollars

Also that you will request permission for the Association to purchase the Confederate Commissary Building at Atlanta, Ga. now used as a School building by the Association for a School House, for the sum of Fifty Dollars.

Also permission to purchase the