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Richmond April 19th 1867
Mr R.M. Manly Sup Education

Dear Sir
your of the 18th inst, is received and in answer to your request, I have the honor to say, that there will be from 40 to 50 day pupils a few of this number will have to work nearly or quite all the summer months, But in the fall and winter the number in attendance will be much larger between 50 and 70, this addition will be of half grown persons, Size of the building is 20 feet by 30 feet and 13 feet between the floor and ceiling. When the building shall have been finished I have the promis of a few friends that they will pay a part of a teachers expenses then some small part the pupils will pay. I have all the books that will be required for more than a year these I shall give to the Children free of expense. I have attended to the work myself and worked upon the buildings nearly every day since I began it. We had to cart