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even if she posse (the only one in which I could help her) I am unable to give her the money necessary to pay the expense. I therefore write to you, to inquire respectfully whether it is within the range of your powers as Commr. of the Freedmen's Bureau, & whether you would be willing, to send her to Fayetteville Tennessee to her mother. The mother & daughter were separated in the usual course of affairs in the South - The owner of both removing, to the country, the mother was unwilling to go & preferred being sold - (by which she came to be in Tennessee) & to leave her daughter, (then very small) she having other children, with her master's family. An answer directed to "Greenwood Depot" will much oblige me - Yours Respectfully Paul Whitehead. Address, Rev Paul Whitehead Greenwood Depot Albemarle Co, Va. Ansd Decr. 30th /1865 see Letter B-3 Folio Va. 292