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N.Y. & [[preprinted]] Penn'a Freedmen's Relief Association^[[s]] 
No. [[strikethrough]] 207 I [[/strikethrough]] ^[[343 20th]] Street, Washington, D.C. [[/preprinted]]

May 31/66.

Rev. Jno. Kimball,
Supt. Schools, F.B. 

Dear Sir  — I hope you, with Gen. Howard, will be able to visit the School at Goodhope to-day.

Last evening, I had a call from Mr. Dore, the teacher there, who reports that the work of removing the school house is in progress.

He also states that in visiting in his vicinity he has actually found upward of [[underlined]] 300 [[/underlined]] children of suitable age to attend school, though he has not gone over the entire neighborhood.  He is obliged to turn away numbers every week who apply for admission.

He therefore urges, in view of the expected closing of the Church [[against?]] the school at no distant day, the pressing need of still further