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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