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Pleasant Hill Aug. 13th. 1867

C. W. Buckley Esq
Supt. of Education
Montg'y Ala

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

Sir
Yours of the 3rd Inst. is to hand and note contents.
You will please send me thirty testaments 30 and direct them "Wm" Bayley Belfast Freedmans School Pleasant Hill Ala. via Kings Landing Ala River.
Accept my thanks for the encouragement you gave me to continue and in my position as teacher my school is progressing favorably
Respectfully
Your most Ob'd't Servant
Wm Bayley
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