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L.R. 120 O.S.E. Ark. 1869
#15. Vicksburg. Miss.
June 7. 1869.

Buchanan W. H.
Supt. of H.P.F. Missions.

States that the H.P. Boards Freedmen's Missions has resolved to establish a Normal School at some place in the south, and enquires as to the suitableness of Little Rock as a point for such a school, & what inducements the Bureau and state can offer in the way of buildings and appropriations to further or establish such an enterprise, under the auspices and control of said Board. It would be their own to make a first class and permanent Institution. Wishes to know the negro population, and the educational and general prospects of the State.