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St. Michaels
Talbott Co.
St. Michaels. February 8th 1868
Mr John Kimball  Dear sir it is with pleasure I take my pen in hand to inform you that we are enjoying good health here and our schools are are going on and we are in prospering condition and we number 45 scholars and increasing all of the time and also we have a very nice [[strikethrough]]Tt[[/strikethrough]] Teacher and the most we need is a little help and if we could get our church finish it would give us a little better chance as we have ten dollars a month to pay of the teacher salary and fourteen dollars a month for board and fuel to buy and books to buy and if we could obtain a little help from our friends we would then be  enable to finish our church and then we would turn our whole attention to the school we want twelve hundred feet more of