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N. E. Branch Freedmen's Union Commission. NO. 8 STUDIO BUILDING, BOSTON, July 14 1869. Rev. R. M. Manly, Dear Sir, We have received yours of July 9., & do not quite understand your proposition about Miss Ball. We presume you want her to take Miss Clarke's place; but we did not know before that Miss Clarke was not intending to return. Has she sent in her resignation to you? She has said nothing about it to us. We [[strikethrough]] shall [[/strikethrough]] are not able to say now that we can do any more for the Normal School than we did last year; but as you are coming in so soon we would like to talk the matter all over with you, then. We shall