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Mobile July 4/66
Maj Genl W Swayne

Sir, 
Accompanying this you will please find a diagram of the building I proposed for you to purchase for the negro School. It is a large 2 story & half building, ample to accommodate 60 Beds the partitions can be easily secured throwing the middle story rooms into two large rooms. There is a two story kitchen in the rear and a two story building put upon for the Physician in charge with sleeping apartments, Galley along the whole front with double winding steps to the Galley in front, with entrance to the basement or lower story in front. It is located on two lots. Making the whole 110 feet Square, the balance of the squares for sale cheap, the lots on the east attest, the free use of has been granted to the Infirmary, and the one on the west was most beautifully laid off as a shrubbery & grape arbor garden. The buildings & lot is offered at $8,000