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[[preprinted]]69[[/preprinted]] May 7th Rev N C Brackett Dear Sir. Write this letter you will receive orders from Genl C H Howard to proceed to Parkersburg on business for this Bureau. I have sent Blanks for a school report to the Colored Teachers there. I wish you would see that a report is sent on. Also see what is needed if anything to promote the education of the colored people in that [[fence?]]. Have they school houses & lots. night & sabbath schools. Find out if you can about any schools in that part of the country. You know very well how to proceed from what we did at Charestown, [[Martinsburg?]]. Hoping that