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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Circular(handwritten)       Washington, D. C., ^[[February 26th ]]^1869
To Rev. John Kimball
  Supt. Education,
    Dear Sir:-
             Herewith will be for-
warded to you a package of Blank No.5. which
I hope will come to hand safely.
  In this connection I take occasion to say, that the efforts of this Bureau having now been concentrated mainly upon payment of Bounties, and Education, and as the several 
Southern States will doubtless before long take 
the freedmens schools as part of their own
public system, we are therefore entering upon
a peculiar transition (underlined) period.
  It is important that nothing hitherto 
gained shall be lost; rather our good work [end page]