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Memphis Tenn March 4th 1868

Maj Genl O O Howard
Commissioner & 
Washington DC

General
I have been for the last ten months, acting matron of the Canfield orphan asylum of this city and have been connected with it most of the time, since its organization.

I intent to go north to my home, in Kansas, in the month of April, and desire to take with me, three orphan children, two girls, and one boy, provided I am furnished, by Government, with transportation for them.

I will pledge myself to see that these children, are properly