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Office B.R.F & A.L
Camden Ark August 29th 1867

Wm M Colby Esq.
Superintendent of Schools
Bureau of R.F & A.L

Sir
I have the honor to request that a competent teacher be sent to this place as soon as possible as the Freedman here are very anxious to have a school started within the next month. Please inform me what time I can be furnished one so I can make the necessary preparations. 

I am very respectfully

Your Obdt Servant. 
Th Thorp
Agent. B. R. F. and A L.