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Looking for suitable matron for the Colored Home after dismissing previous matron. Copies part of a letter from Mrs. Jacobs at Alexandria, re Reverend Albert Gladwin. Alexandria citizens vacating town sell out to blacks. Refusal of government rations so as to avoid having to conform to all government policy (the gifts have strings attached). Complaints against "Mr. G" and his attempts at controlling the Colored Home. Includes envelope.

Journey from New York to Virginia. Description of contraband camp in D.C. Physical condition of Alexandria, large number of deaths. Description of "Grantville" (contraband?), includes schoolhouse. Complaints against Reverend Gladwin sent to Secretary of War. Public whippings, though General Slough puts an end to them. List of persons who should receive Rochester Society's reports. Mrs. Jacobs intends to construct a free school.

Urgent need of clothing supplies. List of what is needed . Few contrabands come thru the military lines. Growth of Grantville.

Bill for clothing, presumably meant for the Alexandria freedmen work (shawls, cloaks, blanket).

Urgent need of goods for distribution. Doctor H. on a drunken spree. Immorality in Washington and Alexandria. "Masonry is the greatest engine for evil of any thing yet." Dr. Bigelow's wife wants to be hospital matron and patients are not anxious for that to happen. How the truth of what is happening in contraband work is being whitewashed. Philadelphia Quakers come to visit and are scandalized. Prevalence of prostitution in Alexandria. Includes newspaper clipping from Alexandria newspaper detailing "disgusting spectacle" of two captains riding through the town with two "notorious women."

Bill for advertising Frederick Douglass's lecture.

Bill for advertising Frederick Douglass's lecture.

An attempt to re-seize freed slaves is foiled. Schools for persons of African descent. Baptist/Presbyterian ideas of mission. Run-in with Reverend Gladwin over policy governing use of rooms; Wilbur and Jacobs are thrown out of their rooms. Intrigues re appointments to positions of authority in contraband and hospital work. House visiting. Gladwin's iron-fist rule; his extortionate charge of rents to black persons. Clothing distribution. Visiting invalid soldiers. General Slough calls Gladwin on the carpet.

Regarding sending materials to the Alexandria contraband work

Christmas vs. Thanksgiving in the South. Contraband housing problems. Contrabands as a political yo-yo. Colored School in Grantville is run by persons of African descent.