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Brighton Mongomery County, Maryland April 29th 1870 W.L. Vanderlip Supt. of Education The school at this place is not well attended There is on rool Book for this month about 28 average attendance of about 19 Miss Douglass have the promise of 4 or 5 more on monday next The House is well finished and in good condition I intend to hold a meeting here to night and see if more scholars cannot be geatherd into the school Yours Respectfully [[signature]] John H. Butter [//signature]]