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May 8 
Rev. Crammond Kennedy
Cor. Sec-

Dear Sir: I am in rect of letters very frequently asking for donations of school books for the country. In more than a score of places the colored people have erected school houses with their own hands, and employed, either some poor white person, or some one of their own people, who has some small attainments, as a teacher. They lack books, and hav'nt a penny of money, their wages on the farms being recd in the form of food and clothing rather than money. So you see that all that is necessary, in many instances, to bring twenty, thirty or fifty children, under tuition is twenty thirty or fifty primers at a cost of some four to ten dollars. Cannot a successful appeal be made to the publishers for donations? Hav'nt they some unsaleable series that they could spare a few hundred copies?

Respectfully Yours &c.
R.M. Manly Sup Education