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

Pleasant Hill
Dallas County 26 Apl./67

I take much pleasure in stating to be Agent of the Bureau in Selma, that I have frequently visited the Bailey's school for negro children, and have been much pleased with his management of the school, and the progress of his scholars. Today I was in the school, where I saw fifty four genteel looking girls and boys, all industriously employed with their books. I heard the recitation of all the classes in spelling &, reading, saw specimans of their penmanship, and heard them exercised on the multiplication table, all of which I thought very creditable to the pupil, as well as creditable to the industry and capacity of the teacher. Mr Bailey's school is in my opinion well managed, and is accomplishing favorably the purposes of its establishment, the education of the negro.

S. W. Bowie M.D.