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school may be promptly opened at the proper time?  I hope that you can do so. With a school house completed and a School in successful operation it is certainly inopportune at least to be obliged to suspend operations. The vacation from July 1st until Sept. 1st is in the case of Centreville almost too valuable time to be lost and I hope the Bureau will do all in its power to continue — The people of C are not able to employ [[strikethrough]] solely [[/strikethrough]] wholly at their own expense a teacher; the board is as much as at present they can make up.

I hope you will communicate with me at this place where I am spending the vacation so that no time may be lost if possible.

Matters in the town of C- and indeed through the C: of Queen A- were progressing nicely on my departure July 1st ult.

I am 
Yours etc.
[[signature]] Charles A. Harrisson [[/signature]]