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395 158. 0/592 Jan. 21 0 Miss L. Crocker: Yours of the 19th is recd. Of course I know nothing of the terms on which Mrs. Lowell transferrs the schools to you. I know that I cannot pay more than $10. per month to each teacher, and further that if that is all the cash they are to receive, the schools cannot go on. If the N E. Br. does not take "the pecuniary responsibility," I suppose Mrs. Lowell retains it. Day before yesterday I recd. a letter from one of Miss Gardners graduates and a line from herself (the first intimation that any of them wished to teach) asking for a school. No one can appreciate more fully than I do the importance of putting these young persons to teaching at once. There are situations for them all - i.e. useful fields of labor, and I can possibly pay them $10. per month - not more. I should offer them the positions and the $10 at once. I hope they will accept. It is certain that the freedmen