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Lincoln Academy
Jan 16th 1868,
Hon Wm. M. Colby,
Supt Education
Little Rock Ark.

Dear Sir
If you can find them I wish would send me by stage half doz. Mitchells first lessons in Geography for beginners, Old Editions, and half Doz McGuffeys third Readers old [series.

We have some of them in school or I would not order the old works. Those that have them are not able to purchase the new ones in fact but very few are able to buy any books and I am afraid times are growing worse not one in a hundred are making contracts at anything like wages. In but very few instances I have been able to get pay for books but I am anxious to have these and would prefer to lose the amount than not get them. I have appealed to different parties in the north for the old books used in schools but have not succeeded in getting them.
Please attend to this matter and oblige Yours Truly
D.C. Casey