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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau of R.F. & A.L.,
Houston, Texas, February 9th, 1866

E.M. Wheelock 
Supt Freedmans Schools
Galveston Texas,

Dear Sir,

Your telegram did not arrive in season for me to leave on this mornings train for Milican. Your telegram came at 10-30 a.m. I have visited the schools for Freedman in this city four in number. 

Mr. Stuarts school had 146 scholars present and is expecting an increase of some 40 more. Has a good school with two assistants, the Miss Byrne staying with him. 

Mr. Henry Grays (colored) school record shows 27 members 10 Boys 17 Girls, but at the hour of 9-30 a.m. I found only 2 present and could not judge of his efficiency.

Ward Bonner (colored) keeps a school in the same neighborhood Has 35 scholars I found 16 Boys present and 8 Girls ditto I am more formably informed with this school than with any of the others taught by colored persons.

Parson Slick, as he is called a colored man and Baptist Preacher is in charge of a school in the Mt Zion church (colored Baptist) I am confident from what I saw