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Rooms of Am. Miss'y. Assn 53 John St. 
New York August 2d 1866.

Gen O. Brown
Richmond Va.

Sir 
There has been placed in my hands a statement of Capt. W. P. Austin, Norfolk, as to two Hundred & seventy doz Hoes, imported duty free from England, and said to have been sent by the Am. Miss'y. Association to Norfolk for the use of the Freedmen but afterwards sold by a Mr. Pride.

Secretary Whipple, who would know most of such a matter, is now out of town, and will be absent some weeks, but the communication will be to day forwarded to him, though he may not be able to get all the facts until he can consult his invoices and letters.

Permit me to add that I cannot find in our books nor do I remember any Mr. Pride, who has acted as an agent, or been connected with the A.M. Association, - and that the instructions given to our teachers has been uniformly not to sell any thing,  but to give to the needy. In the very few instances where we have heard of a departure from these