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to teach Catholicism as those four Priests are intending to do who are now in route for this country, but to teach the difference between right and wrong and the common English branches.

I have made inquiries in regard to the said situation and was informed that the colored people are well provided for.  I have written to a branch of the Freedmen's Bureau, but as the answer was not satisfactory I now apply to you.

Yours respectfully,
Bertha Milson.
Address,
Springfield, Mass.

Transcription Notes:
Last name could be Neilson, Nelson, Wilson, or Meilson. Milson per page 133