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[[right margin]] Amelia CH
July 5' 69
J.G. Murphy [[/right margin]]
 
Amelia C.H. Va.
July 5, 1869
Rev. R. M. Manley
Supt. Ed. Va.
Dear Sir
I recd. a letter from Rev. S.C. Lugar. (Pittsburgh Pa) Saying that you complain that I have not sent you monthly Repts. from our Schools at the Big Oak and Russell Grove. You will probably remember, that, when I applied for aid from the Peabody fund for Mr. Craig's School, you replied that the school had been discontinued so long that the appropriation had been transferred to another school. I did not therefore report the Big Oak school for such aid though I taught there nearly three months with the assistance of some of the advanced Scholars - expecting a permanent teacher. Some of our scholars could teach but couldn't govern and as