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Office S.A.C. B.R.F &c
Wharton July 31. 1867

Lt. J. T. Kirkman
A.A.A.G.

The white people are indifferent upon the subject of education and have taken no steps to promote the same among the freedpeople
The freedpeople feel a deep in interest in Subject of education of education, but the present is a very busy Season with them and at present they are making no efforts to promote the Subject of education among themselves.
The freedpeople are very poor and need assistance in this matter. Last year the most of them worked for a portion of the crop, and as the cotton was a failure but few of them recd. any money at all. They may be best assisted in the matter of education by furnishing them pecuniary assistance in building school houses, by furnishing them two or three male teachers as soon as practicable & by furnishing them School books gratis or at a low price School books are held at so a price at this place that the freedpeople cannot but many. This county has a large Negro population and I regret to say that but little has been done to promote the Subject of education among them Since 
 

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