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560 Bureau R.F. & A. Lands Office Supdt. Education, D.C. &c. Washington, Feby. 2 1870. [[underlined]] Douglass Miss Martha A. [[/underlined]] Upper Marlboro, Md. Dear Miss: I sent you a register and some Blank reports last week. You must keep a daily record of your school on the Register, and on the last day of every month, make up one of the Blank reports and mail it to me and send one to [[underlined]] Mrs. Lowell. [[/underlined]] Fill out all the questions you can answer. Make out reports for the time you have been teaching up to 1st of February and send it to me as soon as you get this. Yours Respectfully, Bvt. Major & Supdt. of Education &c [[line across page]] 561 Bureau R.F. & A. Lands Office Supdt. of Education Washington, Feb. 2, 1870. [[underlined]] Davis Esq Curtis [[/underlined]] Mansion House Baltimore, Md. Dear Miss: Miss [[underlined]] Laura H. Iredell [[/underlined]] is going to take one of your schools at [[underlined]] Fredericksburg. [[/underlined]] I have given her a note to you and told her she would find at the Mansion House. If you do not stop there, please telegraph to me at my expense, where she can find you. She will go to [[underlined]] Baltimore [[/underlined]] about Friday Yours &c Bvt. Maj & Supdt. of Education &c [[line across page]] 562 Bureau R.F. & A.L. Office Supdt. Education, D.C. Washington, D.C. [[underlined]] Lowell Mrs. J. S. [[/underlined]] North Shore, N.Y. Dear Madam: I tried to intercept [[underlined]] Miss Bond, [[/underlined]] but no such person was on the stage. If she has returned without stopping [[end page]] [[start page]] here I am sorry for I counted on her taking the [[underlined]] Birdsville School. [[/underlined]] I want to send Miss [[underlined]] Laura H. Iredell [[/underlined]] to [[underlined]] Fredericksburg [[/underlined]] under your commission. She is highly recommended, and I have had an interview with her. She is in this City and will go to [[underlined]] F.– [[/underlined]] so as to open school next Monday morning in the new school house there. We dont as a general thing furnish the articles you name, but will receive applications and where no other aid has been given by us. I hope to fill up your complement of teachers in a few days. Yours respectfully, your obdient servant Bvt. Major & Supdt. of Education &c. [[line across page]] 563 Bureau R.F. & A. Lands Office Supdt. of Education, D.C. &c. Washington, Feb'y 2, 1870. [[underlined]] Cushing & Bailey [[/underlined]] Messrs. Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen: Please send to [[underlined]] W. H. Foster, Great Mills, Md. [[/underlined]] care of [[underlined]] Philip Wise, Millstone Landing, St. Mary's Co. [[/underlined]] by steamer [[underlined]] Mary Washington [[/underlined]] which leaves [[underlined]] Baltimore [[/underlined]] next Friday morning. 5 Wilson's Primer 3 " [[ditto for: Wilson's]] 1st Readers 4 " [[ditto for: Wilson's]] 2nd Readers 10 " [[ditto for: Wilson's]] 3rd Readers 6 Geographies No 1 6 " " [[dittos for: Geographies No]] 2 4 Writing Books each No 2, 3, & 4. 1 doz. in all. 1 Box chalk for blackboard, and send bill to Yours Respectfully, Bvt. Major & Supdt. of Education &c I should like this bill to be charged in Jan'y a/c if possible [[line across page]] 564 Bureau R.F. & A. Lands Office Supdt. Education, D.C. &c. Washington, Feby. 4, 1870. [[underlined]] Smith miss Martha J. [[/underlined]] Clear Springs, Md. Dear Miss: I have sent your order for books to [[underlined]] Cushing & Bailey [[/underlined]]