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40 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A. L. Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C. Washington January 28, 1868 [[underlined]] Sharpe [[/underlined]] Rev. [[underlined]] C. W. [[/underlined]] Dear Sir: I am directed by Genl [[underlined]] C H Howard [[/underlined]] to write you that the Bureau will pay rent till the new school house is ready if the church is denied to to the school. We have no control of the Methodist Church. We do not desire to regulate the schools, but prefer to leave that with the Trustees, explaining to them however that the Bureau aid is rendered with the expectation that there shall be no exclusions from the school on account of age. This is what Genl Howard has told me to write to you. If you can, however, save us the rent or make it very small, I hope you will do so. Also hurry up the school houses. I am so sorry for all your troubles. I wrote you a day or two ago. Very respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 41 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C. Washington, January 28, 1868. [[underlined]] Hatton [[/underlined]] Miss [[underlined]] Martha. [[/underlined]] I can send you a first rate colored lady from Philadelphia and have her salary paid, if your people will board her and if they will agree to [[underlined]] fill [[/underlined]] up the school. I must have a full day and night school for her and the people must fix up the school house, putting on the wainscotting and stopping up the cracks. Let me know [[underlined]] immediately [[/underlined]] about this. Very respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt of Education. [[end page]] [[start page]] 42 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C. Washington January 29 1868 [[underlined]] Carson [[/underlined]] Col. [[underlined]] R. R. [[/underlined]] I want a colored man or woman for a school at Budde Ferry, Charles County, Md. There is now one school in the county at Port Tobacco (a place you have heard of. [[Atgerst?]], one of the assassins lived there). This school will be a large one. The people pay the board. The house is a new one just done. I would like Miss [[underlined]] Irdell [[/underlined]] at Oxen Run. That place is about four (4) miles from the city. Send me her full name and I will send transportation. There is no place now ready very near there for Miss [[underlined]] Ketchum. [[/underlined]] Would she not like to go to Wardville? That place should be filled immediately. Very respectfully yours, [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt of Education [[line across page]] 43 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A. L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr D.C. Washington, January 29, 1868. [[underlined]] Wilmer [[/underlined]] Dr. [[underlined]] W. R. [[/underlined]] A colored man has been here today and informed me that they are ready for a teacher at Budds Ferry. What is my best way to get one to that place? Very respectfully yours. [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 44 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comm'r D.C. Washington February 1st, 1868. [[underlined]] Corson [[/underlined]] Col. [[underlined]] R. R. [[/underlined]] I want a colored man to teach at Helens Creek, Calvert County, Md. The house is now ready and the people will do the same as in other places. It is very important that the schools for which I have asked teachers be started immediately. Please inform me with as little delay as possible if you will furnish these teachers and send me their names and I will send transportation. Very respectfully yours. [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education.
