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Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co. Ala.
August 26/69

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
Mr. Buckley
Superintendent of Freedmen's
Schools for Alabama
Montgomery
Dear Sir:-
Col Taylor an excellent citizen of our county owning a fine plantation on the west side of Tallapoosa river about 18 miles from Dadeville is now completing a nice school house for freedmen children, and Mr. T.F. Hamlet Esq is desirous of teaching same Mr. Hamlet is well qualified for the place there is but one freedman school in the county and that at Dadeville, Can you authorize this school provided fifty scholars are obtained? 

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