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career her has been but a struggle against fearful odds. All that whites and deluded blacks could do to thwart my purpose has been done. Of late matters have looked more favorable. I have reason to believe I have many personal friends but at the same time they haven't the courage to connect themselves with our unpopular enterprise, especially as they are not fully satisfied that it is to be permanent. They have great horror of having Brown and in a future day having to accept him. This I believe is the chief obstacle in the way. The result is the people with few exceptions aim to patronize both schools, themselves attending my night school and their children Brown's day school as in other instances they send their children to Brown's day school and to any L.S. Thus it is evident but little is needed