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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Freedmen's Aid Society of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

BISHOP D.W. CLARK, D. D. President
REV. L. HITCHCOCK D. D. Treasurer
REV. R. S. RUST, D. D. Cor. Secretary.

Office: Methodist Book concern, corner Eighth & Main

Cincinnati, O. Nov. 13th, 1868-

Rev. Dr. Harper,
Sup't of Education Ala- Dear Dr.,

I am very sorry that you were absent when I visited Montgomery for I wished to converse with you at length about school matters. I will send you a few teachers upon the terms specified in your circular. To what places shall they be sent, and can good boarding places in white families be secured for female teachers? Is the way all clear for a teacher at Bluffton? Can a lady secure a boarding place there? The reason I prefer sending teachers to those places where we have churches is that our ministers may cooperate with the teachers, by securing suitable homes, providing [[strikethrough]] homes [[/strikethrough]] board, schoolhouses, fuel and other essentials furnishing protection and so forth - State any such places for a few teachers. Yours R.S. Rust