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Bureau R. F. and A. L.
Off. A. S. A. C 1"&3" Div 4" S.D. Va
Gordonsville Oct 20/68.

Rev. R. M. Manley
Supt. Ed'n. Richmond Va

Sir:

Miss Gardner has informed me that the Bureau has stood ready to give the building at Charlottsville and $.1000.- in money to remove it and put it up on a lot to be purchased by the Freedmen.  This offer of the Bureau she says was not accepted by the society at Boston as the amt. was not deemed sufficient to remove and re-construct the building.  I have recently learned that I can purchase the lot on which the building now stands the sort of which as been heretofore refused