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N. E Branch Freedmen's Union Commission. Recently New England Freedmen's Aid Society. No. 8 STUDIO BUILDING, Boston, April 8 - 1868 Mr. Manly, Dear Sir, I thank you for your letter in regard to the Normal School in Charlottesville - Your reasoning is all good and coincides with our intentions. We proposed to make Miss Gardner's school more thoroughly adapted to the Normal purpose - not to establish a large new school. But as you suggest, it is very important to know what is to be the condition of Educational affairs in the state - and the fate of the Bureau bill before we do anything about it. We are making preliminary inquiries in regard to it only.