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Washington Arkansas September 3 1867. Wm Colby Supt Education Little Rock, Ark. Dear Sir I might with propriety offer apologies for very long delay in acknowledgeing your official communication of July 9th and your private letter of the 10th of the same month. I was absent at the time of receiving them in Lafayette County & deferred answering untill my return to Washington. I am glad to know that my course in the management of the school at this place has been approved both by yourself & Mayor Thibaut. I fully concur in what you say of the Mayor & his return to this place as