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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.