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Nov 16th 1864
Lieut Wheelock - Sec Bd of Education
Dear Sir,
In compliance with your request to furnish you a written statement, showing the average cost of books & furnished to Board of Education for Freedmen in comparison with cost of same to Boards of Public Education, generally and the trade at large. I respectfully submit that  the difference is fully five (5) percent lower than the terms allowed to the largest dealers in the country, and 15% lower than small dealers and public schools elsewhere are furnished, and equal to not less than 88p% below the ordinary retail rates in the worth, for example I give you the rates of a few of the articles which shows the difference all through-
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|   | Retail Price | Wholesale Price | Price to Bd of Ed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prices speller | 35c | 20c | 16c |
| P & W 1st Reader | 50 | 30 | 30 less Freight & Insurance | 
| P & W 2nd Reader | 80 | 56¼ | 50 less Freight & Insurance |