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accustomed members of this Com. attended to the business; but I wrote you a letter in the last week of Aug. mentioning their circumstance (of Mr Pratt's inspection tour). I have turned to the daily Records, & find that letter entered, but its contents not noted, as is the custom here. I cannot therefore say positively that I gave you then a list of the places visited, but such is my impression. The 7th Sept. we sent Mr Pratt again to the same District to discover which promises from Bureau officers & others have been fulfilled; intending to send Teachers to the old places, & to new ones the 1st Oct.

On the 27th [[strikethrough]] May [[/strikethrough]] Sept. you asked for information as to the no. of Teachers we should probably send into Va. & their locations. Your letter was rec'd on the 29th, & replied on the same day, by a list of all