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Greenville Tennessee May 24 1867 Rev D. Burt Supt. F. Schools Nashville, Tenn. Sir Yours with the $25.00 has been rec'd & how to dispose of it, is a trouble to me, We have so many that are suffering, for the necessaries of life, it is hard for me to decide who is the most needy. I have appropriated $5.00 to a poor widow, who is driven to the necessity of living in the woods, with nothing over her but a few brush & night before last a woman - that was staying with her, was confined. The child was born she lying on the cold ground, in the midst of a heavy rain storm. The people here seem to care no more for the suffering of the negro than they would their swine. I will help the colored man I wrote you about, his name is "Buck" $15.00. He is a young man, say about 28 years of age has a wife, who will be confined soon, they came from N. Carolina not very industrious. The widow (they call her Aunt Liza) is about 40 years of age, very smart & industrious - has four children one of them quite young. It is impossible for her to get a house in this section, what she will do