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Campbell Barracks
Washington D.C
June 19th 1868

Rev R M Manly
Richmond Va.

Sir

Your letter of the 19th inst to Mr Alvord criticising so severely the project on foot to purchase suitable grounds & Buildings by the colored people of the United States as a permanent homestead at the National Capital for Gen. O. O. Howard has been referred to me by Mr Alvord, and I assure you sir that my only object in droping you this line is to inform you that the Reverend J. W. Alvord is in no-wise responsible for the origination of the foolish Project refered to. At my request he only handed me a list of the Superintendents of Schools. I took the liberty to say that he named you &c. therefore Mr Alvord stands entirely exonerated from connection or complicity with the movement, although he did say to me after I explained the whole project to him that he thought it a good thing if we