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

To Rev Joseph Welsh
Sup't of Education Texas.

Dear Sir:
Please find list of Societies at work 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
Gen'l Supt of Schools.