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72 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L. Head Quarters Assistant Com'r D.C. Washington February 13 1868 [[underlined]] Brubaker [[/underlined]] Capt. [[underlined]] J.C. [[/underlined]] I find but one report from Harpers Ferry W. Va. for last month, and that is of the Normal School. Is there no primary school at H.F. and no night school? All night schools should be reported on separate blanks by themselves and as full as day schools if possible. Why are not schools started at Shepherdstown and Charlestown, and Romney and Moorefield? If you have any more reports please send them in immediately as I want to close my report for January. Very respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 73 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A. L. Head Quarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington February 13, 1868 [[underlined]] Eddy [[/underlined]] Rev. [[underlined]] J.W. [[/underlined]] Dear Sir: I send you your appointment as Agent of this Bureau. It will go into effect on the day when you take the oath: which oath you can take before a Justice of the Peace or a Notary Public. I wish you to take this oath and send it to me on the 21st of this month, the day when your engagement closes with the New York Society. Very respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 74 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A. L. Head Quarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington, Febry. 13, 1868 [[underlined]] Butler [[/underlined]] Mr. [[underlined]] J. H. [[/underlined]] Dear Sir: I send you orders to proceed to Prince George Co. &c. We cannot afford to keep you all the time in Calvert County. The houses upon which you have been working ought to be done by this time. I shall send the two teachers for whom you have asked, very soon. Then all will be in [[end page]] [[start page]] order, but the house at Plum Point, I believe, and that ought to be done by this time. You have been to Nottingham and asked for more lumber. I do not think we can send them more lumber. We gave them a large lot of boards, shingles &c. They must plane a lot of boards for window frames and flooring, and door and frame, and get some sash for a part of the window and board up the rest. They have been miserably slow in doing anything down there. I want you to get them at it and have the house done and a teacher in. Go also to Horse Head and see what the trouble is. That house should be done. Tell them at Woodville if you see any of them that I shall send a teacher in a very few days. Go to upper Marlboro' and see what they are doing and get things fixed so that a school shall be started. I have written but cannot find out what the trouble is. Then come on to Forrestville and see Mr [[underlined]] Niles [[/underlined]] near there and find out how that house comes on. (Mr. [[underlined]] Niles [[/underlined]] is a white man). Then go to Robeytown and see what the trouble is there. They have a house finished but there is trouble about paying Mr. [[underlined]] Robey. Robey [[/underlined]] is a white man. Then come to Washington and see me and then you will go to Leonardtown and see Capt. [[underlined]] Lawrence [[/underlined]] and then go through Charles and St. Marys Counties and then back to Calvert again. Now you see there is work to do and it all needs doing [[underlined]] now. [[/underlined]] Write me often and tell me where to write you. Very respectfully yours, [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 75 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A and L. Head Quarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington February 13th, 1868. [[underlined]] Williams [[/underlined]] Friend, Your letter was duly received. I have informed some of the Trustees of your writing and they Genls [[underlined]] Howard [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Whittlesey [[/underlined]] have seen your letter. Your requirements are not deemed unreasonable. We are very glad to get your letter, but just now negotiations are pending with another party with prospects of success, so that I am
