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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL FREEDMAN'S COMMISSION,
10 Bible House, New York.
Feb 19th 86

R.M. Manly, Esqr
Sup. Education, Va,

Dear Sir, 

Miss Ada W. Smith, Teacher of our Commission in Norfolk, Va. has forwarded to me your letter to her, and our Executive Committee have directed me to correspond with you respecting its contents.

I would premise what I would say by remarking that Maj. Gen. Howard, in an interview with our Committee, in this city, promised them that the Bureau would pay the rent of all schools of the Commission; in which there was a school of fifty scholars. In North Carolina; the Superintendent, under Gen. Howards instructions, is giving all the aid in his power to our teachers, and in several places in building school houses. May I not hope, my deal Sir; that we shall receive the same kindness or similar at your hands.

With reference to the relation of our schools to the Bureau, we can have no objections, of course, to a general supervision, which shall prevent schools crowding each other, or to our teachers reporting regularly to the Superintendent.