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Richmond April 6th 1871
Brig Genl O.O. Howard
Washington

I write at the sudgestion [[suggestion]] of the Business Committee of Indiana yearly meeting of Friends (of the Missionary Board) in reference to the new building at the orphan Home near Helena, Ark.  There has been considerable delay by the contractors, Willard and King, of Little Rock, but it is now nearly completed and it will embarrass us to make the payments, the liberality of the Society of Friends of England is being expended to relieve the suffering in France, and we have not been able to sell the school property at Little Rock, our means is very limited. The school and religious Society at the Home is doing well. The new building is very much needed, and they expect to occupy a part of it this month Issace Robson a Minister of our Society from England lately visited that Institution and express'd himself well pleased and wrote to his Friends of England encouraging them to support it, and Joseph Moore the President of Earlham College located near this plase with neer 200 studants has just spent the vacation at the home neer Helena preaching (being a minister) and