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Louisville Ark Dec 4th 69
W.M. Colby
Dear Sir
I find a monthly report is due you and am therefore compelled to write you although I purposed doing so long ago.
My school has gone of very nicely indeed I had to use them rather rough at first for my predecessor let them do about as they pleased - talk and study aloud run out and in at pleasure &c. I have got my name up as a strict disciplinarian if nothing more. 
I now have a class of twenty one in the second reader most