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United States Sanitary Commission.
American Freedmans Union Commission,
No. [[strikethrough]] 76 John [[/strikethrough]] 30 Vesey Street [[strikethrough]] P.O. Box 5,733.[[/strikethrough]] 
LYMAN ABBOTT, Gen. Sec. 
J.M. McKIM, Cor. Sec.
New York, Oct 14 1868

Major Genl O.O. Howard, 
Sir, 
Your second letter to Mr. McKim about our giving a commission to Miss Haley, at Columbia, has been handed to our Committee. That she proved herself an efficient teacher we freely allow; but she failed in certain points to submit to our well-defined and clearly explained requirements. We proposed to make a change in the superintendence but yielded to Mr. Tomlinson's urgent request that we should not do so. Meanwhile Miss Haley in-