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By the 1850s the American Colonization Society officials were sending prefabricated houses, called receptacles, for newly arrived emigrants. Measuring 96 feet by 36 feet, and two stories high, they cost approximately $12.00 each. See the annual report of the American Colonization Society in African Repository 33(1857): 68, cited in Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869, ed. by Bell I. Wiley.

Spellings of all names in the modernized version have been regularized according to the alphabetical listings in Robert T. Brown's Immigrants to Liberia 1843-1865. Names in the original version will appear as written in each letter.