Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas P. Jackson to R.
M. Manly, November 1, 1867
Summary:
Jackson asks for reimbursement for furniture purchased to supply the teachers'
rooms. He was unable to find anyone willing to board them, so had to rent
private rooms.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th
Sub District, Virginia
Rev. R. M. Manly
Supt Education &c
Richmond
Nov. 1st 1867.
Staunton, Va.,
Sir
I ask your direction how I can be reimbursed for purchase of barely necessary furniture for Teachers. I could not find a boarding place public or private, no one would have a teacher, and I had to rent two rooms which were entirely unfurnished & buy some few things.
I have paid about $33 and $15 or $20 more will be needed to give them chairs to sit on. The school is progressing well, but Miss Rowell's assistant has not yet arrived and her services are much needed.
Yr obt servt
Thos P. Jackson
Agent
