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SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL SOCIETY, 
FOR SPECIAL RELIEF AT THE SOUTH
NO. [[Strike out]] 26 [[/Strike out]] 18 WEST STREET. 

The "Soldiers' Memorial Society," is organized for the "vigorous prosecution of the peace" in the States lately the seat of war, by meeting in those states, such demands upon a far-sighted charity, as constantly reach the North, but cannot be answered by the Government, or other associations; in the belief that a generous response to such appeals is the best assistance to Government in the work of reconciliation and reconstruction.
REV. GEO. PUTNAM, D.D., PRES'T
ARTHUR T. LYMAN, ESQ., TREAS. 
REV. E.E. HALE, SEC.

Boston, Sep. 7th 1866

Gen. O. Brown
Richmond Va.

Dear Gen'l

Mr Hale has just returned from No. 8 Studio Building where the two societies have been endeavoring to decide certain matters in regard to buildings, school-furniture &c.
I wrote to Mr. Hale from Richmond (and have twice told him the same thing in detail) that when quarters were reserved for Soldiers' Me[[morial]]