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Aug. 9  9 

Mrs. J.S. Lowell 

I have just seen Mr. Jones the Agt. of the N.Y. Friends Freedmens Society.  They have had a good school for three or four years at Wytheville, two or three hundred miles from here.  All the rest of their schools are in this city and in the Counties around within fifty miles.  That single school being so distant, he wishes to give it up.  He thinks there is the best material there for a Normal School of any unoccupied place in the State.  I think so too.  You have other schools in that section [[strikethrough]] Wyt [[/strikethrough]] Marion and Abingdon, and Mr. Schaeffer is at Christiansburg, and has been assigned to me as an Asst. Supt. so that I could send him down there without expense to you, to look after affairs.  Moreover if you are favorable to locating your Normal School there, I will go down there on my return from the North, and make the necessary arrangements - or at least see and report.

Respy
R.M. Manly
Supt Education