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Houston, Texas
Dec. 1 1865 

To Brig. Genl. E. M. Gregory 
Asst. Comr. of the Freedman's Bureau for the State of Texas, Galveston. 

General, 
I have the honor to report that the establishing of Schools for Freedmen in Houston, is a decided success. 
I opened the School on the 7th Nov. ult and 87 pupils were admitted. Since that time to the present date 43 more have been admitted, and the School now numbers 130 pupils, and it is daily on the increase. The average daily attendance through the month has been about 100. There has been a very visible improvement in the children under my care, both in deportment and studies, and I have the school now pretty well disciplined, but a month hence I hope to report a still greater improvement. The children are all eager and anxious to learn, and are becoming careful and attentive to all my instruction. 
   On the evening of the 7th Nov. I opened a Night