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[[strikethrough]] United States Sanitary Commission [[/strikethrough]]
15 Lombard Block Chicago
Oct 15th 1867

My dear Mr Manly
You may know - for the papers have announced it - that I am to read the paper of fresh efforts in favor of education in the South. I am succeeding, but I want your [[aid]]. Please therefore at the announcement of the paper be your pretext for writing me a brief letter hoping that I will awaken a [[perfect]] degree of interest in the west than has as yet been manifested in this [[deal]] paramount overshadowing [[?]] for the Southern man of education. Then it needed now as the