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Private

[[Crossed out]] Soldier [[/Crossed out]]
Barton Sept. 12, 1866.
[address me at Milton)

Dear Gen. Brown

Mr. Chapin's note was written without any conference with me. I have supposed all through the summer that
the [[Crossed out]] the [[/Crossed out]] Soldier's Memorial teachers (the former Holycross teachers) were sure of quarters in the Dwelling House of the Bakery. On the 9th I was informed for the first time that the Freedmen's Aid teachers would be stationed there and that the Freedmen's aid, [[Crossed out]] when [[/Crossed out]] expected to put our teachers into the Bakery building on Clay Street. I wrote at once to Mr. Manly - and [[Crossed out]] he [[/Crossed out]] now learn from him that you supposed there would be room for us all in the [[Crossed out]] hous [[/Crossed out]] Dwelling. 
The real difficulty is that there are 18 teachers where there [[Crossed out]] was [[/Crossed out]] is room for eight. Can you suggest any other proper quarters - where we can take a whole family of eight or nine persons? We should prefer to be as sure