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educated up to a state law for the education of the whole colored population.

At Appomattox Court House we have a school. Mr McMahon is the teacher. The accommodations are very bad, the state of society is worse. He has been in imminent peril of his life. That county is said to be one of the worst in the state.

Our best school probably is at Farmville, Pr. Edward Co., 54 miles from here. Three ladies are teaching there. They have separate rooms, & the school is graded. Miss Clara A. Dean is principal. She is a very energetic woman, & an admirable disciplinarian.