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Jan. 29.

Gen. W. Graham a.s.a com.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 25th is at hand. I am sorry not to have made your acquaintance and talked this matter over in person. The Bureau is not at liberty by law to do anything toward the support of teachers. It can rent and fit up school rooms and furnish transportation for teachers from their homes to the field of labor. By thus relieving the freedmen, could not they raise enough to meet the expense of a teachers board? Then, perhaps you could induce your friends at the North to pay the salary and the whole thing would be accomplished. There would be no use in applying to the associations which have teachers in the field, as they all have as much on their hands as they can manage and most of them will not be able to go through the year with all they have assured. As soon as you can make it certain that a teacher will be supported and a school maintained, make application stating all the facts, through your next superior officer, and the necessary rent and repairs will be furnished-

Very Respy-
R.M. Manly
Sup Education