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Rev. E.N.Kirk, D.D., President. 
Wm. E. Whiting, Ass't Treasurer.
Edw. P. Smith, Gen'l Field Agent.
Secretaries
Rev. George Whipple, N.Y.
Rev. M.E. Strieby, N.Y. 
Rev. J.R. Shipherd, Chicago. 
AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
No. 53 JOHN STREET, 
New York, March 1st 1867. 

Maj. Gen. W. Swayne
Asst. Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Montgomery Ala. 

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

General,
I have the honor of acknowledging through Rev. J. Silsby your generous proposals of Assistance in the purchase of the Baptist College at Talladega & the building of school houses at Selma, Marion and Montgomery. 
The site for the school building at Selma has already been purchased and the building there can soon be put under way. I shall confer with the Branch at Cleveland immediately on my return to Ohio and am sure that