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N. Y. Branch Freedman's American Union Commission 
[[strikethrough]] No. 14 Bible House [[/strikethrough]] 
North Shore, New York, Jan. 1st 1870 

My dear Mr. Williams 

Yours of the 23rd has just reached me & I am sorry too that you are disappointed & that you have not been able to make a better school. 

I sent your salary to Jan 1st to Mr. Manly and suppose you have it by this time. 

Of course it would have been easier for you to have got on if Mr. Davis had visited your school & the parents of the pupils, but you certainly knew your