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Teachers' Home,
Cor. 17th and I streets,
Washington, March 19/67

Brig. Genl. C. H. Howard,

Dear Sir —
I wish to protest, in the name of all the Teachers occupying this Home, against the further use of any of the contiguous barracks for "festivals" or any other kind of carousals.

An institution of this character has been kept up for several nights, of late, in the large building (the second from ours) often making night hideous and sleep impossible until a very late hour. Last night the affair culminated, about midnight, in a fight, during which the lamps were upset, windows, broken, an alarm of fire raised, and several persons [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] injured in jumping from the windows or falling from the platform from which the railing was broken by the crowd.

Of course our family was very much disturbed, all being aroused from their slumbers and preparing to leave the building, in the expectation that it would be burned.

We can feel no security at night, while such things continue, to say nothing of the loss of sleep, which is a serious matter to persons who