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(Confidential)

July 23

J. M. McKim  
Chairman Teacher Com. N.Y. R. F.U. Com

Sir:
In accordance with the request of the Cor Sec, I will give a brief "opinion" of the teachers in my family last school year, said opinion made up from summering and wintering with them, and setting down naught in favor or in malice.

Martha A. + Mary J. Cook. Pleasant ladies to look on and to converse with; with fair education, a good deal of experience and fair capacity for teachers, with no zeal in the work going daily unwillingly to school, and "prospecting" earnestly for settled domestic relations. It is with some reluctance that I come to the conclusion that these ladies are not likely to be useful further as teachers among the Freedman. 

Zelma H. Renne
Ample education, well disciplined mind, laborious in her work. Under bad influences last year went somewhat astray, but I have