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[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Mount Meigs April 23d 1868

R.D. Harper
Supt of Education
Montgomery Ala

Sir,

At the request of Mr R.H. Brewer who has had charge of the Freedmen & Schools (as Agt. of the Bureau) in this neighborhood, I have taken the liberty of addressing you in relation to the schools in this neighborhood, taught a portion of last year say to July 1st by my son, Mr Stephen Elliott Pelot.

At the request of Mr Brewer then. I was indorsed to open the school three weeks since, as he thought that something would be done by the Government, for the support of it, through the suggestion of Capt. Hendrix of yr Bureau. We have now some thirty pupils, who have attended very regularly, and am happy to inform you, that their improvement has exceeded My expectations. I have some in Dictionary, Geography, Grammar & Arithmetic. When I took the school, my terms were, one Dollar per month in advance. I have not received a cent from them, as the poor creatures have no means of paying with. My means Sir are very limited and upon my daily exertions depends the support of a large family. Under existing circumstances I shall be compelled to relinquish my labors, whereby some assistance from the Bureau Pay Thirty Five or Forty Dollars per month, would assist me so much as to enable me to prosecute my duties scholastically, and I say it not egotistically, I think 

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