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Bureau R & F.
Helena Ark.
May 27. 1867.

Wm. M. Colby
State Supt. Schools B. R & F.
Little Rock Ark. 

Sir. 

I have the honor to ask, if it is consistent with your views, that you give me a letter which will advocate in general terms the cause of education among the colored people.
 
The letter asked for is to be used by a friend of mine, named F.A. Boush of Phillips County Ark, who resides about eight miles from Helena, who is very anxious to establish schools in his vicinity and intends soliciting aid from his friends in the North where he proposes