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by private friends who, like myself & my father, sympathize with her in her devoted work) & has never recd any aid from the Bur except by way of transport' for teachers. Her husband has rec'd at the Tract [[Repos?]] repacked & sent to her and other missions in Va. established by him, very many barrels of clothing school books, &c, at an expense of over $250. for freight, without ever applying  to the Bu. for transport' for it, and I myself sent this printer as private freight [[strikethrough]] at my own expense [[/strikethrough]] (not knowing that the Bu. furnished transport' for supplies) about 8 bbls., worth about $100., most of which came out of my own pocket. In view of these facts - that they have done so much themselves in the past, which they might have called on the Bu. for, I think they are entitled to all the aid you can give the mission through such channels as the law has still left open; and you will re[[collect]]

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