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Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION,
Washington, D.C., Nov. 25., 1871.

My Dear General.

We are now at a point where we shall be glad to receive any facts in regard to the education of the Freedmen, which you may have accumulated during the past year, of which I spoke to you. If these can be furnished from the material in your hands, you will oblige me very much by kindly sending them to me.

Very respectfully
John Eaton
Commissioner

Major Genl. O.O. Howard.
Commissioner of the Bureau of Freedmen R.& A.L.
Washington.
D.C.