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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Superintendent of Education
Nashville Tenn. July 31st 1869

Prof. T.J. Lamar
Marysville Tenn.

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication the 28th inst for Hon R.P. Allen and in reply with to state that I have already written to Washington for instructions regarding the manner in which the sum of $10000.00/100 - herein appropriated by this Bureau in aid of your institution at Marysville Tenn - is to be disbursed. I anticipate a reply for and of the [[strikethrough]] present [[/strikethrough]] coming week and will notify you of the same as soon as possible thereafter.

Regretting that I did not meet you during my short visit at Marysville but expecting to see you or