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our nice comfortable benches. We are going to have an examination of our School some day in the first week of June to show the colored peopl their children have learned, and thus make them more ambitious to send them to school. [[strikethrough]] If [[/strikethrough]] We will let thee know when it is, and will be very gratified, if it suits thy pleasure & convenience to come

Very respectfully
[[signature]] Sally Cadwallader [[/signature]]

Mr Kimble. Dr has just told me since I came from school about Obrien. I am glad. I take back what I said of O. O. Howard. I had a sort of reverence for him before this Summer [[insert]] & I have the same old feeling now [[/insert]] O.B being dismissed and now I see I was too hasty, & am sorry that I wronged so good a man by any unjust suspicion. Tho my opinion of course is of no consequence only to myself. But tis a great comfort to me to have my faith unshaken, and I am so glad and proud when men in the Freedmens Bureau "are weighed & not found wanting." We will feel honored if thee and General Howard can make it suit to be at our Examination on the 6th of June. Sally C-