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If you will advise me what to do you will confer a favor.

Please do not think me presuming, or impatient, but if I can receive the salary for Nov. the first part of next week, it will aid me very materially.

Please answer soon & oblige

Yours Very Respectfully
[[signature]] Annie Cummings [[/signature]]

P.S. I have been trying ever since I been here, to get a black-board put up; would it not be [[underlined]] just [[/underlined]] for me to employ a man to make one, an pay him from the money, charged the pupils as tuition? [[underlined]] That [[/underlined]] tho' is scarcely sufficient to pay board, (at 25 cts per scholar.) I wished them to raise it, as I saw they were falling in the rear every session, but the trustees violently opposed it. They are at this time some $15.00, or $18.00 in the rear