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for Mrs Etnier to transfer them to any other Institution or home. Col. Pratt was much surprized that Mrs Etnier should have made any such proposition, as she is well acquainted with the regulations of Carlisle.

Such being the facts, and such being the conditions under which the girls are in this country, there was but once course open as to their immediate future; as they could not remain with Mrs Etnier, they must return to Carlisle and there await the next move. This was very clear to Mrs Howe and to me, and we [[strikethrough]]in[[/strikethrough]] expressed ourselves to Col. Pratt.

That Mrs Etnier was soon to leave Philadelphia was known to Col. Pratt, and he was [[strikethrough]] daily [[/strikethrough]] expecting to hear from her relative to the return of the girls [[strikethrough]] return [[/strikethrough]] to Carlisle. No other course was open to Mrs E.

Between Mrs Howe's first call on me, relative to the Porto Rican girls & our trip to Carlisle, I made it a point to learn about the actual condition in Porto Rico both from officials & from twenty [?]

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