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New England Branch Freedmen's Union Commission
Recently New England Freedmen's Aid Society
No. 8 Studio Building
Boston, Jan 19th 1870
Mr Manly
Dear Sir,
Wm Cooper informed us this morning that you can aid "substantially" in the schools which the New York Soc. wish to transfer to us but which involve that vexed question of "rental". We shall therefore inform Mrs Lowell that we will take the supervision of and correspondence with all schools which will bring us no pecuniary responsibility from Jan to July. We can predict nothing beyond being able to do little next