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Richmond Va
Oct 11th 1866

Brig Genl O. Brown
Dept. Head Quarters
Richmond Va.

Genl,
I would respectfully (ask that a suitable building may be provided by the Bureau for the purpose of opening a Free School for white children in the city of Richmond, under the patronage of the "Soldiers' Memorial Society" of Boston.)

This Society instructed, during the past year, in this city more than six hundred children gratuitously. and ask this assistance to enable them to prosecute their efforts in behalf of these poor children who are entirely unprovided for by other organizations, and too poor to pro