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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,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 the Bureau will not allow him to
do so.‎
The General thinks that the be-‎
nevolent 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
absurd, as it has ever been the‎
General’s object to forward funds people