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in the right place & in the right shape, seems to afford a position in which a right man may make his mark in the history of the salvation of the country & the world.

I am very much interested, too, in the man of whom you speak as ready to take charge of the school at Montgomery, and should be glad to know much more about him, & his work, - if that is the best direction for our friends to work, to have the way opened for them to do so.

Your work of educating the Freedmen seems to me the great movement of the age. You have found the [[??]] & are moving the world, & I think that you may count upon the steadfast support of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
writer is a professor of Greek, so those are probably Greek letters