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Montgomery Ala
Febr 8./68

Maj Gen'l. Howard
Washington D.C.

Gen'l
This letter will be handed to you by Dr. Peter Brice Supt. of the State Lunatic Asylum at Tuscaloosa in this State. 
Dr. Brice visits Washington to ask your aid, as far as your authority will admit to enable him to receive into his institution the colored insane - 
I am well aware of the expediency & propriety of