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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Washington, D.C., Sept 14th 1868

Rev.R.D. Harper D.D.
Supt. Ed. Ala.  

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Dear Sir:-

I regret that plans for the conduct of Schools under the new Bureau Bill, could not, ere this, have been laid more fully before you. 

General Howards continued absence is our apology, as his sanction is needed in what shall be proposed. He is expected back on the 19th inst, and a knowledge of all the facts gained during this extended tour, will enable him then to act promptly. In the meantime it is enough for me to say that aid will be given to Freedmen's Schools in