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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office General Superintendent of Schools.
Washington, D.C.,  June 3d, 1869.

Dear Sirs:
By Circular No. 6, 1869, it is made the duty of the General Superintendent to secure the cooperation of benevolent associations. To do this, facts of a popular character are needed. Please forward for use in my correspondence either separately or interspersed (in your monthly reports) with narrative statements, interesting incidents, striking facts, or pleasant anecdote; illustrative of any point in our work, traits in the character of freedmen and their children, or of the white race. These should in general be brief and pithy, but detail is desirable in some cases.
I want these things also for my 

Transcription Notes:
Pity changed to pithy to reflect the spelling in the dcoument ed