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Rooms of the American Missionary Association.
53 JOHN STREET, 
New York,  June 7, 1867

Dear Sir, 

We send you LINCOLN TEMPERANCE PLEDGES, designed for circulation by each of our Superintendents, Missionaries and Teachers in your place, hoping they will secure signatures to them before they return North, if possible.

We may also be able to send you certificates of membership for Temperance Societies in season.

The names of parents and children, &c, on the Family Pledge, should be signed by them or at their request; and it may be kept as a Family Record. 

The other Pledge is for names generally.  It is everyway important for colored citizens at this time.

The Pledges sent of each kind are of equal numbers.

Major General O.O. Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen's &c Bureau, has kindly offered to give a more general circulation of these Pledges, through his Superintendents, where we cannot reach the people.

In your early Reports please state your success in this work, and give any facts of interest.

Very Truly Yours, 
EDW'D P. SMITH, 
Gen'l Field Agent
A.M.A.