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American Baptist Home Mission
Room No. 72, No. 39 Park Row,
New York, Dec. 28th 1869.

Maj. General. O.O. Howard.
Honored and Dear Sir:
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That you grant us means to buy a Hotel property at Richmond, Va., for $14,000, said to be worth at least $20,000. A few months hence we shall be left no place at Richmond, with a school that is fully equal to Wayland Seminary, unless you grant this aid.
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Believe me, my brother,
Yours most truly.
(Signed) James B. Simmons.

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O.O. Howard 
Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S.A. Commr. &c.
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