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Office Agent Bureau R.F and A.L
Jacksonport Ark
Aug 14th 1867

Wm M Colby
Genl Supt. Schools Ark.

Sir-

For you information I take pleasure in forwarding all details regarding Freedmen Schools in this county, it is true I endeavor to embody all the facts in regard to them in my narrative Report to Asst Commissioner each month, but to detail all the minutia, all the little occurrences, all the grievances, annoyances and difficulties that will naturally in this community attend any effort of the kind, would make such report too voluminous, and aside some of the cases cited might seem frivolous. The interest I feel in schools and their especial necessity prompt me to seek your advice, aid and counsel, in any way that it can be proffered and given - For this purpose I propose to address you frequently and speak of some matters little as they may