Viewing page 30 of 267

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Frost 

Gordonsville Va. Oct. 12, 1868

Rev R. M. Manley

My dear Sir,

A letter which you wrote me, containing some instructions has been mislaid. You asked me to report to you all the Freedmans school in this Dist. which supported by The N.E. F.A.S. or any other society. Shall I also report tuition schools, which colored people attend? There are some such.

I understand you that they are also to be included. I was not able to make anything like a full report of this character last month, but I have increased facilities now.

I have a school in Louisa C.H. taught by a very enterprising Quadroon man. I made all the arrangements for a school in Fredericksburg but yielded my arrangements to some teachers sent by the Baptist Home. Miss. Soc. The Society in F. where church is to be used for a School House, is quite destitute and I knew they would be likely to do more than our Society could hope to - being strengthened in their interest by denominational preferences. I have visited a number of other places, but have not made