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433 722 346/437 Sept 22nd 9 Wm. A Thompson Dear Sir: My instructions from Genl. Howard require me to aid the people in building school houses, - not to build them without their aid. But it is necessary in the first place to know whether a school will be kept up during the year (until next June) before any steps are taken about building. If you are to remain there and teach I shall be glad to assist, as I do in other places, by purchasing the most of the material, while the freedmen put up the building without cost for labor. If this is too much to undertake I am willing to rent the house you now teach in. Yours Truly R M Manly Supt Ed. If you go on teaching you will have some assistance from the Govt. or some Society toward a support.