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Our school has fallen off considerably this month. In partial explanation of this fact is the other fact that Christmas is coming but I can but think that the cold room has something to do with it. Please to give us [[underlined]] heat [[/underlined]] or the means of procuring it — it now seems the great essential to success — so that when the school commences after Holidays it may be under favorable circumstances. If then the school does not do well, procure a good teacher having discharged.

Yours respectfully
[[signature]] J. B. Ford [[/signature]]

343 20th St.
Dec. 17th

If you do not think it best to provide two stoves for our room would you furnish the second ventilator in case I could obtain another stove from some other quarter?
J.B.F.