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Cleveland Tennessee 
January 19 1864, 

Mr. D. Burt
Supt Ed., Bureau R F & A L  
Tenn. Nashville Tennessee  
Dear Sir, 
I am requested, by Mr P Lawson to inform you that he has reopened the Colored School in the 1st Civil Dist of this County. And says that he thinks his school will number Sixty students in a short time. He also says that they are very deficient in books. and requests that you forward to me  at Cleveland. or him at Charleston, Fifteen Freedmens 1st and fifteen Freedmens 2 Readers. My school, now numbers Eighty Eight, and is progressing finely.
Yours Truly &c
O. T. Ambrews
Cleveland Tennessee