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says that the colored people speak of the school with the greatest respect. 

My own health has been excellent for the greater part of the time, and only one day was lost, which was made up on a Saturday.  Yet I found that the work of teaching in the evening after the heat of the day was telling upon my strength, and I thought it advisable to suspend the night school, since I was not acclimated.

My adult pupils expressed great disappointment at the step and it occasioned me many feelings of regret. I especially regret to leave the school without any present prospect of my place's being supplied, as I have other plans which will take me to New England next year.

I am exceedingly glad that I came, even for so short a time, and that I can carry back with me an intelligent idea of the character