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Washington City, July 31st 1869

Rev. J. W. Alvord
Supt of Schools.

Dear Sir:

Stir up your Supts. of Schools to report every School in their States. Tell them to [[underlined]] work, work! work!! [[/underlined]] ** The schools are not all reported. It is not enough to compile reports.

Yours truly
(sgd) O O Howard
M. G. Com'r"

The Commissioner is of opinion (my own also) that in some States, [[strikethrough]] school [[/strikethrough]] many schools are in existence which may be reported as " [[underlined]] within the knowledge [[/underlined]] of the Superintendent", if [[underlined]] special effort [[/underlined]] is put forth to gain information concerning them.

If you know of any such, please