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La Fayette, Chambers County Ala.
July 15, 1867.

Rev C. W. Buckley:
[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] Dear Sir: I wrote you ten days ago, acknowledging the receipt of twenty three dollars; I am out of money & would like my salary for June as soon as the necessary amount of red-tape has been disposed of. About five miles from here there is a settlement, where the freedmen are very anxious to have a school they will have more liberty from field work now for two months, then next fall. Schools ought to be set up in the settlements when possible, so as to counteract the tendency to crowd into the villages.
Mr. John Acthinson, the son of an honest farmer who has always done his own work, opposed slavery & loved the Union, will be glad to start a school, he will build the house with the help of the freedmen, without expense to the Bureau, twenty pupils are ready to commence at once & I think there would soon be thirty or forty.
Mr. A-, though not much educated, would do well for a while, and his wife who has considerable education would help do the teaching, if necessary; he requests me to ask for an appointment for him at whatever salary you deem appropriate; (if the school is shall he be satisfied with twenty five per month).  I have had an interview with Mary A. Lamberth, Wesobulga, Clay County, Ala.