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for Mary Conyers. I do hope your your good young people will prefer to work (in teaching I mean) whether they get much pay or not. I hope they will think it pay enough, to have an opportunity to show what stuff they are made of, and to establish, where they may go, such a good character for skill and earnestness, that the people will not willingly spare them. If they will act thus it will be the beginning of fortune and great success. I would be glad to know what they think of it; I may have something further to write on the return of my Asst. Supt. from a tour he is on in the country. As I have replied so fully in this I hope Robert will excuse me for not writing directly to him. This is for him. Yours Truly R.M. Manly Supt Ed P.S. Since writing the above I have rec'd. a letter which furnishes a good place for Robert in "Tunstalls" on the York River R.R. and I think an additional $5. per month. R.M.M. 413 184. 398/414 January 22d 0 Bvt. Major Gen'l O.O. Howard USA Commissioner. General, I have the honor to request an appropriation of Seventy five (75) Dollars to aid in erecting a Freedmen's School House in Caroline County Va, five (5) miles from Hanover C.H., Va. I am, General Very respectfully Your obt Servt R.M. Manly Supt. of Ed W74 - 1st Vol/70