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Tuscaloosa, June 14th, 1866

Maj. Gen. W. Swayne,
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of 8th inst., which was rec'd this evening, I beg you to accept my thanks for your kind proposal to assist us in our work among the freedmen, and assure you that the money tendered will be very acceptable & useful to us. I have been very anxious to provide for the religious & secular instruction of the negroes in this place, but have been hindered by the want of proper agents to work with. I have just made arrangements for opening, on next Sunday, a Sunday school for colored people, which will be superintended by the senior warden of this parish, assisted by some of our best people. The money you proffer, and even a much larger sum, could be very profitably used in supplying them with proper books & other appliances. -- I have been anxiously looking for a proper person to take charge of a day school for the same class. I work some time ago for a clergyman in Wisconsin, invoking him to take charge of the school & assist me in missionary work. His answer reached me today. He will come if I can send him sixty dollars ($60) to defray his travelling expenses.