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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. 25th, 1868-

Rev. Dr. Harper,

Dear Rev
A letter from your assistant, Mr. Bush, containing a copy of letter from Col. Rugg has been received. I trust that the excitement is only temporary. They owned the schoolhouse at Stevenson under the patronage of the Penn. Association- I think the hostility to the enterprise is not limited to any church, but to any person willing to educate the colored people. It may be well to wait a few weeks, fix upon the plan for the building, ascertain its cost by responsible contract - the bricks can be secured, &c and then go forward with the enterprise- It is no time to back down. My teachers are ready to commence school. Can we have protection? I shall lay the case of Mr. Larkin before the President and Gen. Grant. Please advise me about the opening of the school.
Respectfully Yours R.S. Rust