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Freemen's School
Danville Va
5 Mo 31. 1867

Esteemed Friend
R.M. Manly
I received thy kind letter informing me of the decisions of the Authorities at Richmond in the Danville property case; which were quite satisfactory. A riot the other night occasioned by some misunderstanding between the Burial Corps (colored) and the colored natives of Danville, so alarmed my wife that she hardly seems equal to carry on the day School at present, and so long as the present state of feeling exists among the colored people, it is not safe to carry on the Night School. As soon as the riot took place the other night, we instantly put out the lights and dismissed the night Scholars, and they all escaped to their houses but one man who remained with me to put out the lights. He remained in the house of the colored man who has the charge of the School houses. This house was