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March 2d 1866

Mr. E.C.Estes
Sec. Ex. Com. &c

Dear Sir:
Yours of a recent date enclosing Bank Checks to the amount of $264 for teachers and one for $100 for me has been rec'd and money distributed. I have also rec'd from you 25 packages clothing, school books &c and an invoice of the same.

I am afraid our market is overstocked with clothing. Miss Smiley is a heavy operator, and chiefly in the way of gratuity. Mr. C. J. Chase also, as agent of the Freedmen's and Union Commission, has an extensive industrial school and has a large amount of clothing. The teachers in all parts of the town are receiving supplies from their friends - and really the business is over done - particularly in respect to women's and children's under garments and old clothes generally.

Your policy of selling, rather than giving, I have recommended everywhere, and insisted on where I could. Great harm has been done by the 

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