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[[preprinted]] Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters 5th District of Virginia,
Alexandria, Va., ^[[Oct. 28th]] 186^[[5]]. [[/preprinted]]

Rev. J. Kimball
Supt. of Schools, &c.

Dear Sir:
Permit me to say that on examining further with regard to the relative capacities of the school rooms at the contraband barracks, and the small wards which we visited yesterday, that you were right in the opinion that one of them would not be large enough for our school. It did not occur to me either that in moving the school from the barracks would break up the mission meetings there which have been held there from the day they were occupied, and which needs more room than they have there. The Sunday School also would have to be moved. I have