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Sub. District of Selma
Bur. R.F & AL.
Selma, Ala. Feb. 22 1868

Bartlett, CC.
Sub. Asst Comm'r.

Requests information in regard to the feasability of establishing a school for Freedman at Airmount Ala. Mrs. Hope has applied for assistance to establish a school at that place. 

L. E & M. S.DS. #130. Vol B. 188.

Camden Ala. 19th May 1868

Respectfully returned. I have no personal knowledge of Mrs. Hope, am told that she resides in Clarke Co close upon the line of Wilcox

I cannot say what attendance at schools could be had, or what amount would be subscribed to keep up a school. Public sentiment is setting very much in favor of colored schools but it would be almost impossible to maintain a school in any portion of the county without aid in funds from some outside resource, owing to the poverty of the freedmen themselves and inability in most cases of the whites who are favorably disposed to assist pecuniarily.

Much good would in my opinion result from the establishment of colored schools in a great many localities of this county if it