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Brooklyn July 26, 1865  

Col Brown Commir of Freedmen & abandoned Lands
Sir a few weeks ago I had the pleasure to send you a letter, embracing the cause of the Freedpeople in your district, and received in reply a note from you, stating that in a brief time, a Commissioner would be appointed to fully adjust matters in Petersburg.
I believe Sir that, that, Commissioner has been appointed, and has entered upon his duties, I have only to add, the schools under the joint auspices of the American Freedmens Friend Society Brooklyn and the National Freedmans Relief also of New York, of which I have had the superintendency, the few weeks of their Organization, have now closed for the summer term, and that the testimony of those who have visited them, during their sessions, is that they have been as successful, as any of the schools in the State, but I learn since through Mr Hawkins that they are to be completely reorganized, by your authority the coming season. If so, all reorganization, that contemplates their more permanent end, will only be hailed by the earnest friends of the Freedmen and of a sound Public Education, with the profoundest interests and pleasure.

I have been Sir earnestly requested by the Rev Mr Dudley, Col Wilder, and others to call upon you previous to my coming north again, and would have done so, If urgent his [[?]] had not called me, more immediately at home