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[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS,
Washington, D.C., ^[[July 7th]], 1869. [[/preprinted]]

Circular:
The Commissioner says to me "hurry up your next report; it is much needed."

Will you therefore give dispatch to all the material due me; and especially that which I have been recently asking for, and much oblige,

Yours &c
Very respectfully
[[signature]] J. W. Alvord [[/signature]]
Genl. Supt. Schools.

Supt of Education
Dist of Columbia