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AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 
29, Lombard Block;
Chicago, 9/22 68

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Secretaries:         
GEORGE WHIPPLE, } New York.   
MICHAEL STRIEBY, } New York.    
JACOB R. SHIPHERD, Chicago.
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Wm M Colby Esq
Supt &c
Little Rock, Ark.

My Dear Sir:

As our large expenses would not permit farther increase, & the duties of superintendence in our interest are so considerably lessened by the cordial good will of yourself & Gen. Smith, I have simply annexed Arkansas to the District of Rev. I. P. Bardwell, our very able Supt. in Missa.

Mr Bardwell is sustained