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National "Freedmans' Savings and Trust Company,"
AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK BUILDING,
No. 87 CEDAR STREET,
NEW-YORK, 1865

After all, it is at the present moment quite un-
certain which of all these institutions I may
permanently work for—Perhaps all—Perhaps only
for this Bureau—it may be for the Tract Soc.
I am not so put out as you may suppose after
all, I can do any thing Charly made known to
me as duty. A few more weeks ^will probably decide
some grave questions now pending & give me
^somewhere more of exact responsible routine I hope so.

As to salary, I hope ^{expect by help of a kind providence} in some way to get
enough to give me beloved family the simpler
comforts of life. This is all you must expect. If I
was pastor, withmy health, it would ^could only be in some
place where only ^but a pittance would be allowed me,
I could not fill a large place, nobody would give me 2500
or 3000 dollars salary as pastor. I must continue to obtain
about this sum by some such side issues as I have been
at for the last 20 15 years, and this brings me to the
question of home life—1^st In the above case I could be at