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New Sheffield April 15th 1,66

Superintendent of Freedmans schools

Sir

I am going to school in this place and have a literary seociety here of which I am a member, and being on debate for the next night we meet would be very much obliged if you would send me a little information on the question, which is are the Negroes as capable of receiving intillectual improvement as the anglo Saxons, or [[strikethrough]] are they as [[/strikethrough]] can they learn as fast as the White men, as I am not very well posted would like to get a report on the schools under your charge if you will oblige me by sending one