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Southern Famine Relief Commission
61 Broadway
New York, May 11 1867.

ARCHIBALD RUSSELL, President, Address, No. 61 Broadway
EDWARD BRIGHT, Cor. Sec., Address, No. 39 Park Row.
FRED. LAW OLMSTED, Rec. Sec. Address, No. 110 Broadway.
JAS. M. BROWN, Treas., Mess. Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall St.
JOHN BOWNE, Gen. Agent, Address, No. 61 Broadway

Colonel C.C. Sibley
Macon, Ga.
Dear Sir;

The schooner "Scranton" leaving here today, takes 10,000 bushels of corn to Gourdin Matthisson & Co. of Savannah, from the Southern Famine Relief Commission.

The Commission have received distressing accounts of the destitution in Polk County, Georgia, and you are requested to send two hundred bags of the corn to Rev. J.F. Swanson, Rome, Georgia, for distribution in that county. I know Mr. Swanson personally and well, and he will prove to be thoroughly faithful to the trust. His Post Office is Cedar Town, but he will