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Mantua S [[?]] R.F.A.L.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] Jan.1.1868

Dear Bro J A Garfield

As my daughter Mary is in the State of Alabama teaching among the Freedmen I wish to learn what is the prospect as to her being paid by the Freedman's Bereau as she was encouraged to expect when she was engaged Last Summer 
She writes that she believed Great injustice is being done the freed people by the Whites to compel to make disadvantagous contracts and to defraud them in many ways and she does not know how far it would be safe for her to say so. She writes that some are trying