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Huntsville Ala. March 20th 1868,
General O. O. Howard

Dear Sir, I am engaged in the work of educating the Freedmen in this place. We are greatly in need of proper buildings for schools. One of the citizens deeded an acre of land to colored trustees for school purposes, the title is a good one, and we wish to know if there is a probability of the Bureau building or assisting us to build a house. there are five or six hundred children of Freedmen in town that should attend school, and a building should be needed large enough to contain a school averaging, at least 200 pupils and constructed for a graded school and normal class, and it would require about $2000, If [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] you give us any encouragement we will make

Transcription Notes:
In between “purposes” and “the title” there should be a period and the “the” should be capitalized. The there in “there are five or six hundred children” does not need to be lower case.