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Office S.A.C. B.R &c
Corpus Christi. Sept 30 1868

Lt. Chas. A. Vernou,
A.A.A.G.

The freedpeople are anxious to learn to read, and many of them are exerting themselves to do so, but having no competent teacher, they make but slow progress, they aid assist each other as far as they are capable and occasionally find a friend that will give them little assistance.

To send them a teacher would be the best assistance they could get, who should a colored person

Very Resp &c
(Signed) John Dix
S.A.C.

50. of all ages attend Sunday School.