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Grant County Ark
Sept 15th 1869

Dr F M Chrisman
Dear Sir after compliments and informing you of our good health &c I want you to call and see Mr Colby the superintendent of the Freedman Bureau of this state and find out from him what can be done (if any thing) for the freedman in this neighborhood. They are all very poor and with out aid -  I cant see how they are to school their children - in my district (as you know) I have a school going on for three months taught out of doors except in bad weather and then they have the use of a private house but how we are to pay the rent I cant tell but they must or ought to be schooled- the children are learning fast under the circumstances - can we get help