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Fair Mount Somerset County Md.
Oct. 8th 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I write to inform you that I met the colored people of this place and we had a good time but the turn out was not as large as the people thought it ought to be.  They were much pleased with what they herd and called a nother meeting for friday night in next week  I told them that I would write to you and after they held their meeting next week you could corrispond with them and direct your letters to Robert H. Boggs Fair Mount Somerset Co. Md.  This place is very thickly settled with colored people, and they ought to have a school house here  The Educational Department have been injured very much by some unfaithful teachers and the additional 12 dollars that were collected in this district last tearm  these people say they want a school house and will do all they can to get it  Yours truely

[[signature]] John H. Butler [[/signature]]

NB please write to Princess Anne and obliged