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Cleveland Freedmen's [[Strike-through]] Union [[/Strike-through]] Commission.
Cooperative with the Am. Missy Association

JOSEPH PERKINS, Pres't. 
REV. [[Strike-through]] 
H. B. KNIGHT [[/Strike-through]] 
Edward Anderson, Cor. Sec.
H. K. RAYNOLDS, Treas. 
MRS. J. S. TALCOTT, Associate Sec.

Cleveland, O. Feby 23rd 1867

Mr. Buckley
Supt. Education.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Dear Bro.
In assuming the Secy of this Society on its becoming Cooperative with the Am. Missry Asso., I am happy to open correspondence with you by introducing Mr. & Mrs. Adams who go to take the School at Greenville. They are highly valued in Cleveland as teachers, Mr. A. being considered among the first and best.

We contemplate with great satisfaction their going South, since we feel that now the foundation for the whole infrastructure of Education for the Colored people is being laid, & that much depends on its being broad, deep, and sure. We are painfully aware that