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National Freedman's Relief Association,
New York, 2 June 1866.

Major General
O.O. Howard
Commissioner

Sir:
In passing through this city on her way home from Washington, Miss Merrick informed me that you thought it best we should continue to maintain an Asylum in Florida, instead of removing the Orphans now there to Charleston, as proposed; also, that I should, for her, soon receive a communication embodying your views & containing a proposal to that effect.
  
The object of the present is to beg that such communication may be forwarded as early as convenient in order that it may be laid before our Board in season to act in anticipation of the time fixed for the surrender of the Finnegan estate, now fast approaching. 
  
I remain, with great respect & esteem,
Yr Obt svt
Frans Geo. Shaw  Pres