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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Office of Superintendent of Education,
Raleigh, N.C., April 9, 1868.

Lieut. Jno M. Foote,
Plymouth, Washingn N.C.

Lieutenant, 
Your letter of the 6th inst., asking my assistance in procuring a teacher for Jamesville, was recd yesterday. I know at present no suitable person for the place unless it may be Miss Josephine Cropper, a colored teacher from Philadelphia, who is just now in this city. She has been teaching at Wake Forest (ten miles from here). The colored people there, I am informed, were very much pleased with her. I have no personal knowledge of her, having never seen her in the school-room. Therefore I could not take the responsibility of recommending her - but will confer with her about the enterprise if you wish to take her on trial. She received her education at the Philadelphia public schools. Perhaps you would prefer a male teacher. Any further assistance I can render I will give with pleasure. 

Yours respectfully,
F.A. Fiske
Supt. Education 

[L-B. vol. 4. p. 106]

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