Dear Sir: The committee very respectfully solicits your aid to a fund being raised by friends of Sergeant William Louis MacMullin, founder and pioneer of the first freedman's school ...

Dear Sir: The committee very respectfully solicits your aid to a fund being raised by friends of Sergeant William Louis MacMullin, founder and pioneer of the first freedman's school ... / Respectfully, Frank Clouse, chairman. Mathew Dodds, secretary. Thomas L. Morris, Walter Rowland, Benjamin Ollum, W.E. Cline, Benjamin D. Smith, William Owen.--committee.

Other author/creator	Clouse, Frank.
Other author/creator	Dodds, Mathew.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Pittsburg, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1895]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 14 cm
Supplemental Content	African Americans and Jim Crow, 1883-1922
Subject(s)	MacMullin, William Louis. African Americans--Education. Freed persons--Education --United States. Soldiers--Education, Non-military --United States.

Variant title	Committee very respectfully solicits your aid
General note	Letter continues: ... starting of the school by him at Drummondtown, Accomac County, Virginia, and subsequently at Birney Barracks, Baltimore, Md. ... long line of magnificent schools, colleges and educational institutions that have sprung up from his first efforts to raise the colored race out of its second bondage--ignorance ... Lieutenant James Lockwood ... rendered valuable assistance, aided by his father, Brig.-General Henry H. Lockwood ... Orrin Rogers, Esq., of Philadelphia, C.C. Fulton, of Baltimore, Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, Horace Greeley, of New York and Miss Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, contributed cash and school supplies ... Frederick Douglass visited the school ... Sergeant MacMullin ... is without means to provide for himself and family ... send amount of your favor to Mathew Dodds ...
General note	Letter headed: Pittsburg, Pa., October 9th, 1895.
References	Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3159
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa.: NewsBank, inc., 2014. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex African Americans and Jim Crow, 1883-1922: Imprints From the Library Company of Philadelphia subscribers.
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Letters.

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