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whether it better be started independent of all organizations, Freedmans Commission, or the American Missionary Society or Freedmens Bureau.  Gen. Howard say he will stand by the enterprize as long as he lives & see it through.  Give us your views of the sum of money needed to run such an institution.  And the great question is will you take hold of it & see it through with our backing.  Professor Emerson is greatly interested in the project & we all feel that it is a way of doing great good if the right man can be found to attend to the duties.  We do not flatter when we express our confidence in you & strong desire to have you at the head of the institution from the start.  Write me at once don't delay & if you have had