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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