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which can also be used for churches. In many places all the land they have is the school house lot. They also agree to pay the board of the teacher and the incidentals of the school. The Bureau will pay the transportation of the teacher; and arrangements have been made of which you are informed, by which the Bureau pays $10. per month of teacher's salary. Our teachers (male) we generally pay $20. per month, with board and transportation. Thus you see a very small sum of money will enable you to support a teacher. I hope you will give us 20 Christian young men immediately. Very respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 587 Bureau R. F. and A. L. Headquarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington, Oct. 30, 1868. [[underlined]] Groves [[/underlined]] Miss [[underlined]] P. C. [[/underlined]] Frostville, Maryland. Madame: Inclosed please find vouchers for your salary. Please sign both as indicated in pencil marks and return. Hereafter these will be forwarded monthly - always sign and return. Have you a daily register and monthly report blanks? if you have, how many? Send your report for October when you return the inclosed vouchers. I send you two blanks for monthly report. Very respectfully [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. Copies sent to W. H. Thompson, Olney; Martha A. Swan, Port Tobacco; John Butler, Port Republic; G. W. Gaines, Piscataway; J. P. Douglass, Upper Marlboro'. [[line across page]] 588 Bureau R. F. and A. L. Headquarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington, October 30 1868. [[underlined]] Knight [[/underlined]] Mrs. [[underlined]] Jane [[/underlined]] I send you this day 24 Sheldon's Phonic Reader, @ 16¢ each | $3.84 6 Felter's First Lessons @ 16¢ each | 0.96 6 " [[ditto for Felter's]] Primary @ 18¢ | 1.08 [[total]] | $5.88 Besides this I send a bill of other books in the package amounting to $12.03, making a total of $17.91 - which I shall keep back from your salary. [[end page]] [[start page]] You will sell these books so as to pay the freight on them to Nottingham by stage. Please send me your report for October - or so much of it as you have taught. Respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 589 Bureau R. F. and A. L. Headquarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington, October 30, 1868. [[underlined]] Core [[/underlined]] Friend I send some rules. Please look over them — do anything you please in way of change and return them to me. See if you think we can make them do for us both — if so I will have them printed. Respectfully yours [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 590. Bureau R. F. and A. L. Headquarters Asst. Com'r D.C. Washington, October 31, 1868. [[underlined]] Cummings [[/underlined]] Miss [[underlined]] Annie: [[/underlined]] I send herewith transportation for yourself and sister. I wish you both to reach Baltimore so as to take the Patuxent river boat next Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock. If you have any difficulty in finding the pier from which it starts, you can learn by calling on Mr. [[underlined]] Core [[/underlined]] at the office of the Baltimore Association, corner of Courtland and Saratoga streets; but as it is a well known boat you will find it I think by asking most anyone You will leave the boat at Fair Haven wharf where Mr. [[underlined]] David [[/underlined]] Earl will meet you and take you to your school at Sunderlandville, Calvert County. If he should fail to meet you then you must get over as well as you can; but I have written him. Your sister will go on to Plum Point landing where she will be met by George Cooper who will take her to her school near Parker's Creek, Calvert County. If he does not meet her she will get over as she can. You will find people who know about the school, and some of the Trustees. If you do not go from Baltimore on Wednesday then I do not
