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sustaining their own ministries. And this tax on them for religious purposes renders it impossible for them to pay their teacher a suitable salary- I am badly in want of Books, & now have urgent need for 15 Premises, 60 spelling books, 20 First Readers, 20 Second Readers, 20 Third Readers, 25 Arithmetics, 25 Geographies & 15 English Grammars, & would like also to have 25 or 30 Dictionaries & slates.- I have labored under great disadvantage in not having the same kind of books for my scholars. They all have different kinds & there are not a dozen books in any school alike. But if I had a supply of books so as to properly classify them, it would relieve me of a great deal of labor, & enable me to instruct the children to much better advantage. The Freedmen are very anxious for the School to be sustained; & feeling so sadly their own want of education, they are extremely desirous to educate their children. And this has caused me to sympathize with them, & induced me to remain with them & labor for them almost gratuitously, until my finances have become so reduced that my own wants have to be attended to, & I am now sadly in need of means