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252 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, June 8th 1868. [[underlined]] Wadsworth Mr. H. R. [[/underlined]] Norbeck, Montgomery Co. Md. Dear Sir: I have asked for the lumber which you need for a school-house, a plan of which I send you herewith. Maj. [[underlined]] J. M. Brown [[/underlined]] will send you a bill of the same, and inform you when and where it can be obtained. I am out of the city most of the time and have not been able to find a carpenter: but such houses are built in the town counties of Maryland for from sixty to one hundred dollars. I hope you will have the house build right away; that is our understanding when we furnish the lumber. If any of the lumber can be bought up your way, we shall be just as willing to buy it there and save the hauling. Let Maj. [[underlined]] J. M. Brown, [[/underlined]] A.Q.M. Bureau R.F. and A.L., Washington, D.C., know if you can buy it in Montgomery Co. Very Respectfully Yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education [[line across page]] 253 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, June 8th 1868. [[underlined]] Mason Samuel [[/underlined]] Montgomery Co. Md. Dear Sir: I have examined your deed and find it all right. I want to help you and others to build several school-houses in your part of Montgomery Co. but shall have to wait until Congress has acted on the Bill for the continuance of the Bureau. If the Bureau is kept up another year as we expect, I shall be up in your place and other places around there, and do as well as I can for you. Please explain to those who ask the reason why I have not been up as I expected before. I herewith return the deed which should be recorded. Very Respectfully Yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education [[end page]] [[start page]] 254 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, June 8th 1868. [[underlined]] Wilmer Dr. W. R. [[/underlined]] Port Tobacco, Charles Co. Md. Dear Sir: I wrote you from Leonardtown asking what places are now ready for teachers, and how they should best get to their places, and to whom report. I intend to send some colored men, and if I knew how to send them, and to whom, and where, I should send them to-day. Please write me immediately giving me these facts, so that there shall be no mistake, and I will send some teachers for a three months summer term, where the number of scholars will be large enough for a good school, say from thirty to forty. Very Respectfully Yours, [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 255 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, June 12th 1868. [[underlined]] Johnson Mrs. J. B. [[/underlined]] Washington, D.C. Madame: Please send to Maj. [[underlined]] W. L. VanDerlip, [[/underlined]] Annapolis, Md. one hundred (100) Papers, for a colored Sunday-school at that place. Send different kinds, as I hope to get them too subscribe for a lot of them. Send some of the colored pictures, "Child's Paper". I send you the General's frank, which you can cut off and paste on the package, or two packages. Very Respectfully Yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education [[line across page]] 256 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, June 12th 1868. [[underlined]] Corson Col. R. R. [[/underlined]] Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir: I will pay all the teachers except Mr. [[underlined]] Locke: [[/underlined]] he will
