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Howard, Oliver Otis. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
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War Department, Bureau of Refugee, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, [added by hand “March 25th”] 1867
Amy Post,
- Rochester, N.Y.
- Dear Madam:
I am directed by General Howard to inform you
- that he would willingly forward you the
- Sum asked for, but that the rules govern-
ing [governing] the Bureau will not allow him to do so.
- The General thinks that the be-
- nevolent [benevolent] people of Rochester will assist
- the lady in this matter, at least hopes so.
- So far as discouraging Emigration
- is concerned, the statement is [utterly?]
- [illegible], as it has Ever been the
- General’s object to forward freedpeople