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Farmville May 20, 1868,

Brig General O Brown.

Dear General,
Last Saturday, Mr Jackson directed me to write to you advising the Bureau of the impossibility of obtaining a school here or at C and added a brief postscript for instructions. 

Since then we have been waiting anxiously for a reply, and whatever inferences we may draw from your silence we cannot believe for one moment that the Bureau intended to abandon us in our present deplorable and embarrassing situation, The object of our coming here was, as our letter of introduction to Mr Jackson indicated, to teach the freedmen, and we had no idea, nor could we possibly imagine of any contingency what could prevent us from collecting a school. No one, certainly, either me or out of the Freedmens Bureau in Richmond discouraged the undertaking; on the contrary I received letters from various parties, & was personally urged by prominent negroes to visit this section of the State for that specific purpose. Some of these black scoundrels were members of the late Virginia Convention, and expressed themselves as highly honored (?) at the prospect of obtaining a

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