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any relief this Winter-We had hoped otherwise-we wish to know just how much money the Bureau expects from Friends, towards filling that contract. The school is very small except our own family, the outside children from the neighborhood are all engaged in cotton picking, except those too small to go to school, but the teachers are working very hard- They find it an uphill business to bring these children down to real hard study. and perfect recitations in advanced studies, and new textbooks. But they are improving on it gradually, one I don't doubt a success in time. Friends Exect Board retain 15 here at their expense, and I have obtained the means, & pledges to the same for 5 others the coming school year, and we already have two young women boarding with encouraging prospects that there may be several more added to our number after the first of the year, for a few months.