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the situation. Mr. Honey and Miss Sarah Clark, are not constitutionally good disciplinarians. They are very laborious, very faithful and very useful, outside of their day schools, and indeed in their day schools, but in comparison with the high standards about them, their school are not models of quietness and order. 
As regards skill in the work of instruction, all are excellent. Miss Canedy, Miss Ballard and Mr. Woolfolk preeminently so. While there is considerable difference in merit, you have not a bad school in Richmond, and you have reason to be more than satisfied with the work you are doing here. 
Indeed the districting and classification of the schools in this city has added very much to their comeliness and usefulness.
This letter is, of course, private so far as the teachers and the public are concerned. 
Very Resp., 
R.M. Manby
Sup. Ed.