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Buckley

Fayetteville, Talladega Cty. Ala.
May 8th 1867

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

I have the honor very respectfully to address you relative to the education of the children of Freedmen of this vicinity. It is useless to say that they ought to be instructed or that their parents are as yet destitute of the means of schooling them without Governmental or other assistance. What I particularly desire to say is that I own a large plantation in a healthy locality on the western boundary of the County of Talladega some thirty miles from the county seat that is well adapted to a large number of subdivisions into settlements, as there are some dozen springs dispersed at convenient distances over the land with beautiful building sites adjacent to each, and wells can easily be obtained at any desirable point with but little labor. There are already over one thousand bearing fruit trees of different varieties on the place - and it is bordered all around by fine timber