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Freedmen's Bureau Records: John Scott to R. M. Manly, December 29, 1868

Summary:
Scott asks how he may receive boxes of books from New York by government post now that the Bureau office in Staunton has closed down.

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Rev. R. M. Manley
Richmond, Va.

Dec 29/68

Staunton, Va.

Dear Sir

I write to inquire how boxes are to be directed now so as to come by Government Transportation from the Rooms of the American Missionary Association in N.Y. to me in Staunton Va.

Heretofore the Bills of [unclear: Leading] were signed by the Agt. of the Bureau, but now that there is no Bureau I don't know how to get [deleted: packages] boxes of books and clothing. Yet as the Educational Department of the Bureau is to continue I suppose that there a way to get books from N.Y. by

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Government.

I thought either yourself or Maj. White C.Q.M., Bureau F. R. & A.L. would be able to inform me.

Very Truly &c

John Scott