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and too, at a time when the work was unpopular, if not dangerous, and as their schools have been continued without interruption, providing for the school accommodation of all from the first. I am sure you will agree with me in regarding as interlopers, our Episcopal friends, who, at the late days are so earnestly building upon foundations, which during four years of rough labor we have been laying.

But I am impressed that the Society is not informed of the true status of affairs in Norfolk. I cannot believe the christian ministers in charge of the Episcopal Society desire to build up their name and fame by appropriating our fields, or displacing our teachers or injuring our reputation.

(Our A.M.A. has suffered here from the report freely circulated by their teachers that we were opposed to employing and refused to employ colored reachers on account of color.)

(Signed) Your very Truly,
H.C. Percy
Supt.