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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Head Quarters Asst Comr D.C.
Washington January 24 68

[[underlined]] Brooke Friend [[/underlined]] 
I will come up next Monday if the weather is good and something does not prevent of which I do not now know.

Very respectfully yours
[[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]]
Supt of Education.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Head Qurs. Asst. Comm'r D.C.
Washington January 24, 1868.

[[underlined]] Sharpe [[/underlined]] Rev. [[underlined]] C. W. [[/underlined]] 

Dear Sir:  Mr. [[underlined]] Nodine [[/underlined]] was in my office yesterday and told me that you had written him that the school house in Charleston is done and that you are in it teaching.  This was news to me.  You do not write about the progress of your work, as often as you ought. You have now been in the work some time, and yet I have received but one report of your school: or rather that was not your own school but one in your District — and that did not come in time to be of any use in my monthly report.  I want you to send regular reports of all the schools, and your written report each month, so that they may reach here by the 10th or 12th of the month.

What are they doing at Point Pleasant?
                       
Very respectfully yours,
[[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]]
Supt. of Education

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C.
Washington January 27, 1868

[[underlined]] Lawrence [[/underlined]] Capt. [[underlined]] A. A. [[/underlined]] 

Tomorrow morning Miss [[underlined]] P. C. Groves [[/underlined]] will start for the Cross Roads School.  She has no books or anything else to start with. I expect them to get those things from you. I wish you would go up there and start the school and see that they buy such books as they need.  How about the other places?

Very respectfully yours
[[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]]
Supt of Education.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Head Quarters Asst. Com'r D.C.
Washington (No date) 1868.

[[underlined]] Groves [[/underlined]] Miss:

It will do no good to give your daughter a letter to [[underlined]] M Dorsey [[/underlined]] for I presume he cannot read.  I have informed Capt. [[underlined]] Lawrence [[/underlined]] that she is coming.  He will come and see her very soon.  He has books for the school which the people must pay for.  She will not go to Leonardtown.  There is a stage connecting with this one from Charlotte Hall to Leonardtown.  She will go as far as [[underlined]] M Dorseys, [[/underlined]] the miller, just this side of [[Chaptios?]].  You might ask the stage man here if he does not connect with that stage.  That is what I understand.

Very respectfully yours
[[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]]
Supt of Education.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C.
Washington, January 28th 1868.

[[underlined]] Van Derlip [[/underlined]] Major [[underlined]] W. L. [[/underlined]] 

I send you Baltimore list of prices.  If things go by Baltimore these teachers must send to [[underlined]] Janney [[/underlined]] with the money for what they want.  If they go by Annapolis then I can buy them here, if they send the money (same amount).  I have nothing more to give away.

Very respectfully yours
[[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]]
Supt. of Education

P.S.
I had a letter from [[underlined]] Butler [[/underlined]] the other day in which I understood him that he has asked for another teacher.  Is that so?  I hope so.