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provide for themselves educational privilege I beg leave to suggest that the class for which we labor is equally needy with the colored people for whom the other societies have generously provided schools to accommodate four thousand pupils in this immediate vicinity 

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Andrew Washburn
Supt. Schools Sol. Mem'l Soc. 

[[Stamp]] State Virginia Bureau of R. F & A.L. Rec'd Asst. Commissioner NOV 4 1866 [[Stamp]]

Transcription Notes:
when a word is split between pages, the FULL WORD is to be put on BOTH pages. (first word on this film is PROVIDE, even though PRO is on previous page)|| Sol. Mem'l. Soc. = Soldiers Memorial Society.