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that these schools are but the inauguration of that educational movement, which under God is to bring education with its innumerable and invaluable blessings to more than seventy three thousand white persons, in North Carolina, who, hitherto denied the free common school, are neither able to read nor write.]
I have the honor to be, General, 
Your most obedient servant
John M. Langston
General Inspector of Schools
Bureau R.F. and A. Lands

To
Major General O.O. Howard, 
Commissioner, 
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington D.C.