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Gainesville Aug. 27th: 1867.

Rev C. W. Buckley
Supt. of Education.

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

Dear Sir:
Your communication concerning transportation has just come to hand, and in reply I must say that I desire to return home
It may not be known by the clerks at Washington that my home is at Oberlin the point at which we received transportation when we came. In regard to the conditions on which the government furnished trans, - You are aware they are complied with.

You will please to infor me how to dispose of the money recive for the tuition of the children. - The first three months I recived ($43.50) but since that time I have recived but ($10.50) I paid out of this for books, wood &c ($13.) I will send you a list of the money recived and paid out -

I may not have been able to collect as much as it was reasonable for you to expect but I collected as much as I thought it just and equitable for the Freedmen to pay. The School House has weighed heavy on our hands - and as the 'crops' failed last year many of the most industrious have found it hard to get bread.