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Office Sub. Asst Coms'r
B.R.F and A. Lands
Paris, Texas, October 31st 1868.

To Bvt. Capt. C S Roberts U.S.A,
A.A.A. General.

Education
The white people are bitterly opposed to the education of the freedpeople The freedpeople supported a good school here for some months and raised near a hundred dollars in specie to build a church and school house, but they have been so badly treated that they have concluded to abandon the enterprise in this county, and many have left for other parts.

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
(signed) De Witt C. Brown
Sub Asst. Coms'r.