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Galveston Mch 12/66
EM Wheelock Esq
Supt. of Schools

At Millican the walls of the house 26 x 40 are up and the building will be completed in a few days.... prospect for a large school is flattering.

At Col Wilson 18 miles above Millican there is a call for a male teacher The Col is very wealthy farmer says he will pay the whole expence of the school & build the house This weeks he sends his teams after the lumber He will also take the teacher into his own house to board would also pay the person going there extra for keeping the books of the Plantation In the neighborhood of Dr Haydens some 10 miles above the last mentioned place the Dr & 3 others planters will oversee the building of a school house & lend us their aid & counsil such is the condition of things at that place I of the opinion that a male teacher would be better suited to the place than a female. There is also a building being