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be in reading this first of Oct. The freedmen here say they will send their children just as soon as they can extricate them, and they talk of building a house. I think I can by hard work manage to continue the school here at the opening season But not the first white man in town or around the county can see any use or anything else but mischief in sending blacks or as they are called by them negros to school. I think that those people can be tamed a little, and I am trying to do it, whether I will succeed or not I will try. I am very busy today  Resptly your Obt Svt

M.W. Godwin