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[[image]] Charitable Department. [[/image]]

American Tract Society. 
Instituted in Boston in 1814. 
Committee of Charities. Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D. S.G. BOWDLEAR, Esq. 
Rev. WILLIAM HAGUE, D.D.
Rev. William C. Child, Secretary.

Tract House, 28 Cornhill,
Boston, June 1866

R. M. Manly Esq.

Dear Sir,
Some little time since I wrote you that I had sent you a complete set of the Educational books of the American Tract Society, I requested your aid in distributing some of them among the freedmen in your particular charge. 

These books, as I informed you in that communication, are considered, by good judges, admirably adapted to the wants of the colored people, and the introduction of them quite important. Maj. Gen. Howard warmly commends the Enterprise of distributing them among the colored race. If schools desire to introduce them, we will furnish gratuitously as many as our means will allow. I send you a small package of them which you can use as a beginning, and I will be glad to have them put in the hands of such as may need or desire them.