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Calvert, Texas,
March 19 1870
L.W. Stevenson: Esq:
Austin:

Dear Sir:
The collection made by the Freedmen does not amount to more than forty dollars. I can buy a good lot for one hundred dollars, currency in a central part of the town.
I can buy the lot myself and deed it to the Trustees, but what would be the certainty of recovering back the money: I have even scoured the lot already, I have used every endeavor to promote the school interest, and have succeeded tolerably well.
[[left margin]] at Hearme [[/left margin]] My school in the country now numbers seventy five scholars, with a night school of twenty five, and shows almost a full average attendance fifteen miles from Calvert. Can you not secure me in the payment of the $100.00 and the lot shall be promptly purchased. Have a white woman teaching who has about thirty five scholars, she does not suit, and I propose to place one of my sisters in charge of the school at once.