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of giving their children an education, and obtaining one for themselves if possible.

In regard to teachers, I know of none here, but Mr. John R. Haywood, who is now a gate keeper at the Penitentiary at Little Rock, and late a Captain in the 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry, expressed his willingness to me before leaving there, to engage in teaching the Colored Children of Arkansas, if his Services were required.  He is a man I believe capable of teaching in almost any School in the State and would, I think, take great interest in his work.

There is an other locality on the North Side of the Arkansas River and about eight miles from this place (in the vicinity of the Jones Plantation) where I think a School might be established at a very slight expense, but I have not yet had time to investigate the matter thoroughly, but I will do so and advise you of the result as soon as practicable.  And there are probably other points where the same might be done advantageously, which I have not observed.

Yours Respectfully
Albert Coats
Agt. &c.