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New York Branch Freedman's Union Commission
Committee on Correspondence and Organization,
[strikethrough]] Room 22 Bible House [[/strikethrough]] 30 Vesey Str, New York.

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cannot be obtained. How this may be in Richmond I do not know, but if the forwarding of it would add materially to your trouble, I think that you may continue your usual course, at any rate, until you hear something more definite on the subject. Your receiving the money from so many teachers & keeping the account is very different, as you will see, from individual teachers retaining five or ten dollars & crediting us with it each separately. 
Of course it is unnecessary to say that your cash a/c was extremely satisfactory, the Ex. Com. were much encouraged by it, although they fully understood that there was no other place from which we should receive anything proportionate to the amount you report. Will you, if you have time, write us at length on what grounds Genl Brown disapproves of the collections? I suppose his reasons are the same that make us regret so much the necessity of collecting from the children, while we are sure that