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To the Supt. of Education.
Bur of R.F. & A.L.
State of Arkansas

Sir
I wish to engage as a teacher to the Freedmen in Arkansas. I taught in Vicksburg eighteen months when my mother's health obliged me to come to her. If you can give me a school I will be ready to start on receipt of your answer. as I am anxious to begin at once. I shall be glad to have a situation on the river if it suits your convenience on account of direct communication with the north.

If the enclosed recommendation is not sufficient I will send others. also refer you to Rev. J.W. Alvord's Report for 1868 in which is embodied