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Sept 25 '66

Rev. Lyman Abbott
Gen. Sec &c

My Dear Sir,
Allow me again to call your attention to the urgent demand for a High or Normal school, with respectable building and appliances, for colored pupils in this city.
The great difficulty in multiplying schools among the blacks throughout the South is the expense of sending  teachers from the North and the difficulty, often the impossibility of finding a decent and comfortable home for them among a hostile people. This obstacle confronts us everywhere outside the large cities. There are many localities now calling for teachers, through offices of this Bureau, where every condition for a large and prosperous school is met, except that no place can be found for a white teacher to live. To this may be added the great exposure to health of unacclimatized teachers, in many parts of the south. 
The only remedy is, at the principal centers of intelligence and influence, to educate the better class of colored youth to be teachers