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American Missionary Association and Western Freedmen's Aid Commission 
ADVISORY BOARD 
Hon. WM. PENN NIXON
Rev. H.M. STORRS, D.D.
Rev. G.M. MAXWELL, D.D. 
EDWARD HARWOOD, Esq. 

Rev. E.M. CRAVATH, Secretary
THOMAS KENNEDY, Treasurer
LEVI COFFIN, General Agent
OFFICE, 93 WEST SIXTH STREET, 
Cincinnati, August 9th 1867


Rev. C.W. Buckley
Supt. Education Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Montgomery Ala.

Dear Sir
Your communication expressing the purpose of an additional lot at Selma is received. If the Bureau will build a school house such as is mentioned in the communication, written to the "States House" at Atlanta we will purchase the additional lot, and assume the school. We cannot put to much into school buildings and have none left to carry on the school. At [[?]] points in the South we are assuming this responsibility and the Gov is building the houses. 
We expect to continue our educational work in the South until the colored people can conduct successfully their own schools. 
Most Truly Yours, 
E.M. Cravath
Secretary