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Office Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Subdistrict of Mobile
Mobile, Alabama Dec. 17.1867

Col. Edwin Beecher
Head Qrs District of Ala.
Montgomery

Colonel,
In reference to the purchase of Mobile College I have the honor to write that in pursuance of your telegram received yesterday I notified Mr. G.L. Putnam, Agent of the American Missionary Association, of my readiness to sign a contract with the owners, Garzam and Aubert, on the proposed terms viz: Twenty three thousand dollars for the buildings and lot say four acres. The association to pay three thousand dollars of the amount. I further stated that it was understood that the Association would expend the amount required for school furniture and repairs - perhaps two thousand more.
The authority to close for the Association being decided, we called