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New England Branch Freedmen's Union Commission.
Recently New England Freedmen's Aid Society.
No. 8 Studio Building.
Boston, Nov. 4, 1868.

My dear Mr. Manly,
I arrived home safely last evening and have met the
Com. for the first time this morning. I have told them all that I learned in regard to the school at Charlottesville 
We make this proposition -
1st that five gentlemen be appointed Trustees of the Charlottesville High & Normal School. (They can give it any name they please.)
We suggest that these be - 
Prof. Wm. B. Rogers, of Boston
Rev. Mr. Abell, of Charlottesville
Mr. Gilmore of Charlottesville
Mr. Paul Lewis of Charlottesville