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Bureau R F & A L
For Lowndes County Georgia
Valdosta January 24th 1867

G. L. Eberhart
State Supt Freedman's Schools, Ga.

Sir
Yours of the 22nd Inst. enclosing Circular and blank forms is to hand, and in reply to your enquiry Why I did not report Schools in my Co.

I have to say that I have had the misfortune to have a Wife, who had been confined to her bed, for the last eight years, and that my time has been so much taken up with attention to her, and in trying to do something to make a living, that it has been impossible consistently with the duty I owed my family, to give that attention to the schools, that should have been done, a short time since my wife died, and I hope in future to be able, to make prompt returns, 

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