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Helena Mck 30th/66
Wm M Colby
Supt Freedmen's Schools for Ark.
Dear Sir
I herewith submit the report asked for in your late communication. I think you have in your office a brief history of the organization and progress of the schools at this point up to the close of the school year July 1st 65 as I made such a report to Chaplain Grant.
The schools taking all things into account have been very successful both as regards the advancement and deportment of our pupils. Our greatest hindrance has been want of good schoolrooms and quarters for teachers. The A.M.E. Soc have just finished a neat church which will furnish room for at least two schools.
Great credit is due Col [[Bentyour?]] and the officers of his command for sympathy and material aid indeed the schools could hardly have been sustained without their assistance. Schools No 3 - 6&7 are independent of northern aid I have nothing to do with their tuition except to report it.
I collect tuition from No's 1-2-4-5