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[[strikethrough]] United States Sanitary Commission. [[/strikethrough]] 
American Freedmans Union Commission,
No. [[strikethrough]] 76 John [[/strikethrough]] 30 Vesey Street - [[strikethrough]] P.O. Box 5,733.  [[/strikethrough]]

LYMAN ABBOTT, Gen Sec.
J.M. McKIM, Cor. Sec.

New York, March 29 1869

Mr Manly,

Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 27th has just reached us.

I am glad that A.R. Johnson has the King Wm C.H. school, of course this young girl would be quite unfit. There are already sixty enrolled pupils.

We note the closing of James Bowser's school, will he begin studying again?

We are compelled to take Alice C. Hall, a colored teacher, away from Abingdon Va. Would it be well for you to send her to the school you mentioned. I don't think you told us where