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N. E. Branch Freedmen's Union Commission.
Recently New England Freedmen's Aid Society.
No. 8 STUDIO BUILDING,
BOSTON, July, 18th 1868

Major Morse,
Dear Sir, 
Miss Gardner has arrived from Charlottesville and informed us that the colored people have secured the land, and that the work of building the school house will proceed as soon as we can secure the necessary aid from the Bureau. We shall make application at once for the lumber of the barracke and the further aid to remove it and erect a school building. We hope we shall have a