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AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,
Advisory Board.
Wm. PENN NIXON.  
REV. GEO. M. MAXWELL.
REV. H.D. MOORE,  
JAMES W. SIBLEY,
EDWARD HARWOOD
LEVI COFFIN, Gen'l Agent.
Rev E.M. CRAVATH, Dist. Sec'y.

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

MIDDLE DEPARTMENT,
176 Elm Street.
Cincinnati, July 5th 1870.

Col. E. Beecher Supt. Ed.
B. R. Freed AL Montgomery Ala
Dear Sir
Please find enclosed Rept of School we have been teaching in Cahaba Ala - not having rec'd the Blanks it  was impossible to for'd them sooner.
The School has been exerting a very salutary influence in one of the most remunerative fields (morally) that has been occupied.  In the township there are (700) seven hundred Col children