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Buckhannon Upshur County West Va Augt. 15 1868

Dear Sir,

Yours of the 12th came to hand by due course of Mail, and contents noted.

But I  were surprised when I learned that the Bureau of R.F. and A. Lands, did not pay out for the Education of the Freedmen's Children, as nothing in all your Communications intimated anything to the Contrary.  Your Communications were all enclosed in evelopes of the Bureau with O.O. Howard Major Genl. Commissioner of that Bureau.  Furthermore you never wrote me to make monthly reports.  When you wrote me in January about a Teacher, I refered your letter to the School Trustees, and they could not find a Colored Teacher Capable of Teaching the School.  And it was some time before they Could find a White Teacher.  Mr. Malone was Teaching a School for the Whites and when his school closed They Employed him.  He Malone Came into my Office & got your letter and upon the tone used in the letter intimating that he receive the $20. per Month from the Bureau, and the Trustees having agreed to pay the rest of the Salary & expenses, concluded to teach the Colored School.  It seems hard for him to lose it as he is a poor young Man and his Mother a widow with a large family, the young man was in the Army till the Close of the Rebellion, and by his temperate habits saved his money and assisted his Mother