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Emmittsburg Nov 3d 1869

To Rev. John Kimball
Supt. of Education.

I arrived here on Monday and I found the house not ready for me to commence school, it is not yet plastered, but the people have decided to hire a hall where I can organize the school and remain until the school-house is finished.

Please send me my Commission, a school register with the rules and regulations by which the school is to be governed. I expect to commence school next Monday and wold like to have them as soon as possible. Please give me some information in regard to the books, whether the Bureau will furnish any or have me to furnish