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Blackville Mongomery County Maryland
April 25th 1870


W. L. VanDerlip Supt. of Education

Dear Sir
The school here is in verry good condition, Miss Watts the teacher is working hard to do all she can to advance her pupils but the people she have to work with they are anything else but the right kind of people they will work in every conceivable wrong way and when they do right they make a mistake for many of them never intend to do right But by pushing forward in the work of Education the powers of darkness must give away. The House is one of the strongest built and neatly finished in the County

Respectfully Yours
[[signature]] John H. Butter [[/signature]]