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Orphan Asylum Helena Ark
12 m 9. 1868
Wm M. Colby
Esteemed Friend,
Thy letters have been received - the Circular in the last in regard to schools, houses &c. We will endeavor to make useful as way opens for it. But the whole matter seems to have come to a stand still. Not anything done towards laying off our own district and not a peg moved towards our own School house on the ground here yet - not so much as the ground laid off - brick hauled nor anything else, done on the premises - It seem to us very slow & tedious operations, while our teachers & scholars are now shivering from morning till night, in our old school house, with no prospect of this advanced period of the season of

Transcription Notes:
the date is translated as Dec. 9th - 12 m = 12th month. A person who uses Thy often uses this method of recording dates