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Van Buren Arkansas
Dec. the 9th/67

Mr Colby
Little Rock

Dear Friend,
I acknowledge the reception of your note of Nov the 25th together with a daily register for my school for which please except my thanks  it will aid me very much.

Now in regard to my work I fear I shall fail to interest you. I might give you a very dark side of the picture, but we all rather look on the bright side and in fact it has a better effect. I was aware before I entered the field that it was a self-sacrificing work, and that we should not get much if any material aid, on the contrary we were sent alone and unexperienced to paddle