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AMERICAN FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION, WESTERN DEPARTMENT. Chicago, Ill., May 14" 1866. Rev. C.W. Buckley Inspt. & Supt. Ed. Montgomery, Ala. [[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]] Dear Sir: Yours of April 10th reached here during Mr. Walden's absence from the City. He has been with us but a few days since, and was then so pressed with other important business, that he found it impossible to give attention to your communication. He requested me to write you and state to you the reasons that Miss. Buchanan & Miss. Champney did not comply with your request in regard to going to Selma. When your letter reached Aberdeen, Miss. Buchanan had left for the North being entirely unfitted for work. Miss. Champney acting upon her own judgement, thought it not best to go alone. We regret to have disappointed you, but do not think it advisable to place any more teachers in the field before Fall, and shall recall most of