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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.
JOSEPH B. COLLINS, Treasurer, 40 Wall Street.| 
WILLIAM GEORGE HAWKINS, Corresponding Secretary.
J. MILLER MCKIM, Chairman Teachers Committee.|
E. C. ESTES, Sec. Ex. Com. and Bureau Agent.
JAMES J. WOOLSEY, Sec. Tea. and Fin. Com.

New York, August 14th 1866.

Rev R.M. Manly

Dear Sir.
Barnes & Burr will send you there work on School Architecture by todays mail - It is said to be one of the best.  I regret to inform you that our friend N.B. Chase is quite ill with the typhoid fever.
I was with him for a week after his return from Va. I think he was very imprudent in overworking at harvest. I was out with him a few days & had occasion to caution him - he took a severe cold, which afterward settled upon his lungs, from this he partly recovered. I fear it will go quite hard with him. I hear daily & shall it terminate unfavorably will write you at once. I see no way out of our troubles here, we have no money in our treasury, & more officers than we [[strikethrough]] need [[/strikethrough]] shd. have, about twice as many as are needed — a modest man — should any think of retiring. H in Va. I could save the association the amount of my salary = We have just received an answer from Gen Howard, as to what the Bureau will do. What is the proper way to get what