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T.J. Davis
Dear Sir: Yours of the 3d & 4th to Mrs. Lowell and myself are just recd. I am surprised that when you had got a school together, you should dismiss it, and wait, doing nothing, for an appointment. How much better, while waiting to conduct a correspence, to be teaching and making a good character among the people where you are, and proving to any society to which I might present your case, that you have enterprise and good capicity, than to sit down not even earning your own bread. If, now, I were able to say to some society, "Mr. Davis has actually raised a school of 40 or 50 or so scholars and has created such an interest among the people that they will certainly meet the expense of his board", it would be comparatively easy to get you provided for. But I am not permitted to present any such encouraging prospect. I really have no heart to undertake your case further until I can say that much for you. You are a strong, active, educated young man, and I think you ought to find sixty scholars who will pay from 5 cts to 10 cts per week to meet the expense of your board, and by earnest hard work you could teach that number splendidly and make for yourself a character which will give you better position another time.
Yours truly
RM Manly

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