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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
Selma Ala Feb 26" 1868
Bush Esq
Supt Education, Ala

My Dear Sir,
Mr Bartlett has shown me a letter recd from you relating to the proposed school house. I have conversed with a builder who will in a day or two furnish me with a plan & specifications, of a building 70x50 ft, upon a plan similar to the rough draft inclosed. The rooms would be about 13 ft high in the clear and 27 x 47ft horizontally. Such a building would give us four fine rooms of adequate dimensions and suitable for the better days which we trust are not far distant. The plastering could be omitted for the present as also dressing closets &c until the means could be had for completing the building.
The builder informs me that the walls and