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My plan is to establish some where in the Coltan region "An Orphan's Assylum and Manual Laboring College". It will take about $100,000 to purchase the Plantation and erect temporary buildings, & perhaps with economy this sure would run the institution the first year,-after which, with the exception of the cost of buildings, Library, apparatus' and School furniture, the institution can be made self-sustaining and in a few years a paying one. I intend, if I can get your approval and that of General Kiddos (to whom I wish you to present the subject) to make a visit North, to deliver a series of lectures and appeal for funds to put the College into operation. I believe with your & his endorsement & recommendation, that I can raise all the means necessary, and by going to