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Millstone Landing.
March 22nd 1868.

Mr Kimball.
  
         Dear Sir.
               I write to tell
you about the Vanguard. I
received the Manual you sent
and thought. I should very easily
get us a [[Division?]] in my school.
but I am very much mortified, 
surprised, and ashamed at
my ill success. Out of the
large no. of Scholars that I
have had. I have not succeeded
in getting over a dozen to join the 
Division. some say, they are
willing but [[strikethrough]]there [[/strikethrough]]^[[insertion]]their[[/insertion]] parents will
not allow them to do so.
You see,[[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]]^[[insertion]]a[[/insertion]] large majority of
the scholars are Catholic and  

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