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Leonardtown Md
February 28th 1869

Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I hope that ere long I shall have the opportunity of informing you of the Advancement of, the Highest Class in my school in some of the Higher branches, such as Geography, Grammar, and History.

We have a splendid debating Society which is progressing finely. and you have no [[?]] how the minds of the Respective Contestants are being developed in the right way

The night school and the debating Society have been the means of lessening the vice of standing in the [[?]]