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[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS, OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS, Washington, D.C., ^[[August 9th,]] 1869. [[/preprinted]] [[underlined]] Circular Letter [[/underlined]] To Rev. John Kimball Supt. of Education, D.C. Dear Sir: In replying to an inquiry of the Commissioner as to the grand total of schools of all kinds, together with teachers, and pupils, recently reported from the entire field, some increase (over the report of July, 1868,) in [[underlined]] schools [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] teachers, [[/underlined]] appears, but a [[underlined]] decrease [[/underlined]] of more than 15,000 pupils. Whereupon the Commissioner wrote as follows:- "Office of the Commissioner, &c.