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N.E. Branch Freedman's Union Commission
Recently New England Freedmen's Aid Society.
No. 8 STUDIO BUILDING,
Boston, April 22d 1868

Mr. Manly,

My dear Sir,
We have a letter today from Miss Gardner at Charlottesville in which she says "I suppose the authorities at Richmond will not come to any speedy decision with reference to the disposition of these barracks — that you will have to wait as usual the slow process of red-tape. But I hope they will put it (?) into your possession so completely as to give you the entire management of rebuilding &c.

In order to stimulate the colored people to raise money for the land on which to place