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sent, and intended to be sent. You say to-day "in order to lose no time immediate action will be taken on the mem. of Teachers you propose to send which was rec'd from you a 
few days since" A statement of what is wanted with a request that it be furnished had better be forwarded at once" Will it not simplify matters for you to correspond immediately, without the delay of sending to Boston, with our Suptdt of Schools for the 4th District?
His address] is John W Pratt
Culpepper.
I will write to him to give you exact information of the needs.

If the Bureau can furnish us with good school-houses we shall be most happy; & are sorry if we have previously omitted what was necessary to secure these before this time, but we took it for understood that we