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positive assurance, although he permitted me to hope that he would supply the necessary teachers. Afterward, having made application in other directions, and failed, only because the other Societies were in the same condition as the A.M.A., unable fully to occupy their old fields, much less to enter upon new ones, I wrote to Genl Armstrong [[checkmark]] on the 7th of Oct. requesting teachers for those places, and promising assistance in support of the same from the Peabody Fund.  

His reply is as follows:
    
Hampton, Va. Nov. 10. 1869

"My dear sir,

Owing to an absence of nearly four weeks, your note of the 7th ult. has remained unanswered.

It is plainly our work and duty to provide for the peninsula in the way of teachers. But I think we will not send out many teachers this year but keep them in training and push them along as far as possible, expecting next year to send out ten or fifteen. We can send teachers to Williamsburg this winter but I doubt if, in the long run, it would be a gain to do so. I think we will try to send, at any rate, one good one to that