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Report of Mrs. Doolittle's Industrial School.
Washington July 2, 1866.

Rev. John Kimball, 
Sept. School &c.

Dear Sir- Mrs. Doolittle reports her Industrial School at Georgetown closed on the 15th of June. She gives the following general statement of its operation since its commencement on the 18th of Dec. Last:

21 Garments Cut and 1 Twill-pieced in Dec. (10 days).
146 Garments Cut January
90 Garments Cut February
99 Garments Cut March
98 Garments Cut April
147 Garments Cut May
68 Garments cut June (15 days).
687 Garments Cut in all. 

3 quilts have been pieced.
535 Garments have been distributed to the poor, including 83 that were sent  from the Freedmen Bureau and not made over
223 Garments have been paid to pupils for their work.
12 Garments have been sold. 

She has had in all 151 pupils - 103 adults, 40 children. Many of these women were very ignorant, not knowing how to put plain garments together or make them properly. She has taken much pains to teach them sewing, knitting, and cutting, and many have made great 

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Makes sense to me that ~ used for ditto marks in the body of this report