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complains about some of your people who make filthy work in the school house during meetings, such as spitting tobacco &c. We expect your people to use their school house for religious purposes, but they ought to have the house in a cleanly condition, and the trustees ought to look after this matter, and if it is necessary to have the house cleaned after these meetings they ought to have it done, and not leave it for the teacher to do. We hope your people will take more interest in their school than you have done. There are many places in Maryland where the people are calling for teachers, and we are not able to supply them. I am not able to inform you what [[underlined]] Mr. Kimball [[/underlined]] intended in relation to the desk you speak of. Very Respectfully, Yours, D. G. Swain, Bvt. Maj. U.S.A. A.D.C. and Act. Supt. Ed. [[line across page]] 348 Bureau R.F. and A.L. Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c Washington, Nov. 22d 1869. [[underlined]] Walker Miss Susan. [[/underlined]] Washington, D.C. Miss: I shall call to inspect your school tomorrow at 11 A.M. Very Respectfully, Yours, D. G. Swain, Bvt. Maj. U.S.A. A.D.C. and Act. Supt. Ed. [[line across page]] 349 Bureau R.F. and A.L. Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c Washington, Nov. 22d 1869. [[underlined]] Williams Mrs. L. D. [[/underlined]] Pittsfield, Md. Madame: Yours received. We do not appoint teachers. If you desire to teach in the South, you should make application to some of the Northern Benevolent Societies by whom our teachers are sent out. [[end page]] [[start page]] Very Respectfully, Yours, D. G. Swain, Bvt. Maj. U.S.A. A.D.C. and Act. Supt. Ed. [[line across page]] 350 Bureau R.F. and A.L. Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c Washington, Nov. 23d 1869. [[underlined]] Hatfield Rev. E. F., D.D. [[/underlined]] New York City. Dear Sir: I wrote to [[underlined]] Prof. Westcott [[/underlined]] immediately on receipt of yours, and sent instructions to Mr. [[underlined]] Still [[/underlined]] how to proceed to Brooklyn near Baltimore, where we are informed he is now located. Do not understand why he failed in reaching Milestown. You stated that you had appointed Mr. [[underlined]] Lewey [[/underlined]] for the school at Hanck. We have a lady teacher appointed for that place, employed by the [[underlined]] Pa. Asso. [[/underlined]] She went there about the 1st of October, but their school house or church was not in a habitable condition in cold weather, and she taught in a room rented for the purpose during the month, and then went home, but is expecting to return next month when the people have promised to have their school house fitted up. I should have informed you of this before but you stated that you were expecting to be absent for several days, so I explained the matter to [[underlined]] Prof. Westcott [[/underlined]] supposing that Mr. [[underlined]] Lewey [[/underlined]] was at [[underlined]] Lincoln University. [[/underlined]] We should like to locate him at Federalsburg, which place the enclosed letter of Mr. [[underlined]] Davis [[/underlined]] gives instructions how to reach. If he calls on Mr. [[underlined]] D. [[/underlined]] at the Baltimore Custom House, he will give him any information about the place. In case he has already gone to Hancock, in order to save travelling fees, we will offer him the school at Pleasant Valley, Md. To reach this place from Hancock he should go on Baltimore and Ohio R.R. to Harper's Ferry, and report to [[underlined]] Rev. A. C. Beckett, [[/underlined]] Principal of Storer College, who will direct him how to reach the place which is not far from there. We have still a few more places which we are anxious to supply: places where there are good
