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(Personal)

May 10

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard

Commissioner:

General:

I am requested by Gen. Brown to write you a personal note to say that we have good prospect of accomplishing our favorite scheme of the industrial school on York River- a plan which the more maturely we think of it more fully commends itself to our judgement.
In its nature & aims it will be entirely distinct from the enterprise of the A.M.A. at Hampton.  The funds devoted to that (the York River) enterprise will therefore be wanted the same as though
the A.M.A. had undertaken it.

A letter from Mr. McKim, to myself,