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July 26  '66

Rev. J. J. Woolsey sec. Teachers Com.

Dear Sir: I am informed - and I think the information correct, though it is not official - that the Bap. Home Miss. Soc. does not design to send teachers into the field the coming year for primary schools. If this is so it will devolve additional labor and expense on other associations, if the demands for instruction are met. That society had eight laborious teachers in this city, who gave instruction to considerably more than one third of all the children at school. I suggest that you confer with Dr. Backus and learn the facts for your use and mine. What is the greatest number of teachers you expect to be able to send to Richmond?

Genl. Brown has spoken to me of Mrs. Kate Hemmenway of Wrentham Mass, a lady whom he esteems as a very