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Francis George Shaw, President
RMV. W.G. Hawkins, Cor. Sec. & Sec. Teachers' Committee.
E.C. Estes, Sec. of Executive Committee & Business Agent.
Rev. James J. Woolsey, Sec. of Finance Committee, to
whom letters in respect to Agents should be addressed.

National Freedman's Relief Association, 
ROOMS, 76 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK

Boxes of Clothing should be marked N.F.R.A., 76 John Street, New York. Mark, also, on each box or barrel, the name of the place whence it is sent, and the name of the person sending it. Send a List of its contents in each package, and a copy of the same, by mail, to E.C. Estes, Business Agent.
Money should be sent, in Bank Checks or Drafts, payable to Joseph B. Collins, Treasurer, 40 Wall Street, New York; and all Letters relating to the business of the Association, should be addressed to the appropriate Officers in their official capacity; while private letters should be endorsed "Personal."

New York 4. Dec 1865

Mr R.M. Manly
Richmond Va. 

Dear Sir,
Please receive with this free lading of 5 Cases Mdse for you, and one bbl for Miss Lucilia A Williams for steamship Hatteras. The invoice for you accompanies this also, #1761.00
Hoping that you will find these goods worth giving away, and that they may comfort you, whilst they relieve others, 

I am your obt servt 
E.C. Estes

P.S. You are aware that we first give to the necessitous, and the poor; next sell to those who have small means at a small price - lastly sell to those able to pay for a fair price.