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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office General Superintendent Schools,
Washington, August 14th, 1869.

To W. M. Colby Esq.
Supt. of Education Ark.

Dear Sir.
Please find list of Societies for freedmen.

It will aid you in carrying out by correspondence with these bodies - the instructions of Circular No 6, (May 7-'69).

Yours &c
Very respectfully,
J.W. Alvord
Genl Supt. of Schools.