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Office Bureau RF & AL Pine Bluff Ark Nov 22nd 1867 Wm M Colby Supt Education Ark Dear Sir "The house" here is in very bad condition. The roof will most certainly leak, for the shingles have slipped out in at least twenty places - one of the floors is bad - the doors are not well fitted and the blackboards are not painted, nor is the liquid clating here - there are no window weights here - and the prospect is that when the Contracter has departed for good, shall we better have the man who is now working procure the weights, and fix the roof. Now in regard to the seats. The castings for two [[strike]] seats [[/strike]] desks are broken so that they cannot be repaired - while the