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exceeding Fine."

Nothing would please me so well as to have you in the office of State Supt. for I am satisfied that your Energy would do much to elevate this Lowest Class of the Republic to a better position than now held by them and if their Education is not attended to Speedily - Education Moral & religious - they will become the mere tools of demagogues & the creatures of this Catholic Priesthood. I think therefore the abolition of the Bureau a Serious drawback on their educational prospects unless an active Energetic gentleman what has good Sound Sense gets the position.

Before next week I shall be able &.c. to transfer my school to my successor & proceed to Burleson County.

Cotton Chopping time makes my School look small but I believe every one about here is pretty near done their work in the "Cotton patch"

Very Truly Yours
Melville E. Keith.