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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