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expense of conducting them.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servt.
Wm. M. Colby
Supt. Education

File 211 & 237—1867—

Office Supt. Education
Little Rock Ark.
Oct. 2d 1867

Casey, D. C
Washington Ark.
Dear Sir: 
I send you by this mornings stage two dozen (24) Rays Part 3rd at $8.00 per doz. freight paid to Washington. The book retails here at $1.00. They charge $2.50 for freight on the package.
Please remit when you dispose of the books. The book dealer there may perhaps take any surplus copies which you do not need.
You failed to name the number required in your school.
Hoping this may be satisfactory.
I remain,
Yours Truly

Wm. M. Colby
Supt. &c

File 208 & 218—1867

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Office Supt. Education
Little Rock Ark.
Oct 2d 1867—

Hazeldine, Wm. C.
Rocky Comfort, Ark.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 26th Sept. is at hand and contents noted. In reply I would say that none of the Aid Societies with whose operations I am familiar undertake to maintain schools for plantation hands and their children without charge. So great is the demand for teachers for self-supporting schools that the Aid Societies are unable to furnish an adequate supply for such schools even. If the freedmen on the Hawkins Landing plantation are not willing to pay you fair compensation I suggest that you go where there is more enterprise and liberality.
My assistant or myself will visit the S. W.  part of the state in a few weeks, extending the trip, I hope, as far as Little River county.
Very Respectfully Yours,
Wm. M. Colby
Supt. Education

File 212—1867

Office Supt. Education
Little Rock, Ark. Oct 3d 1867.

Shipherd, Rev. Jacob R.
Sec'y A. M. A. Chicago Ill.
Dear Sir:
Among the applications for

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