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Rockville May 25th /69

Mr Kimball

Sir

Having left Washington on 24th ulto, I went to work immediately.  I, at first, was rather disheartened to find things unfinished so far from what I expected to find them. 

The School house was not completed, even the flue was not up, and rather a poor prospect of when we would be able to get in;  but by the aid of Mrs Baeshears and myself, we got the Trustees to meet, to do all they could, and that directly. 

By so doing I got into the School House during the past two weeks. 

I taught two weeks, in the basement of the church, but I found it to unhealthy a place