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National Freedman's Relief Association,
(New York Branch of the American Freedmen's and Union Commission,)
No. 76 John Street, N.Y.
Francis George Shaw, President | William George Hawkins, Corresponding Secretary. | E.C. Estes, Sec. Ex. Com. and Bureau Agent.
Joseph B. Collins, Treasurer, 40 Wall Street. | J. Miller McKim, Chairman Teachers Committee. | James J. Woolsey, Sec. Tea. and Fin. Com.

New York, May 16th, 1866.

Rev. R. M. Mauly
Dear Sir,
Mr. Coleman & wife at Poplar Grove are not in very fine health, & wish to be relieved of their engagements on the first of June. I have by their leave whom  can we trust to take charge at teh Grove? 
Will it do to close the school of City Point & make a transfer of Mr. R. Smith & wife?
We deem it not best to commission teachers to go South at this late hour of the school year-but are ready to transfer teachers now to at the South, when it can be done to advantage.
I suppose it will hardly do to have Miss Robertson alone, at City Point. Hence if Mr. & Mrs. Smith should be removed to Poplar Grove, this school at the POint must be closed , for the balance of the year.
May we be favored with you judgement in respect to these matters?
How does the movement of the Winder building progress?

Yours truly,
James J. Woolsey.