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American Freedman's Union Commission,
No. 76 John Street. - P.O. Box 5,773.
Lyman Abbott, Gen. Sec.   J. M. McKIM, Cor. Sec.
New York, July 5th 1866.

Capt Manly
Richmond Va

My Dear Sir
In reply to your favor of the 3rd to Mr Abbott — who is in Maine — I beg to say:

1. We do not abandon our Normal School enterprise at Richmond

2. No harm done — but the contrary — by your correspondence with