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master was shamed into doing something and agreed to give the room free if I would get them $100 to fit up, which thanks to you I have obtained from the Bureau and I expect to have the room ready for permanent school on Monday Oct 21. The $60 alluded to was begged I believe in aid of the main building if used for a school but (as I with the $300) they properly refused to give it to a church who would not encourage even a school. The concert spoken of was got up at great labor by the Teacher and the money raised which was a mere trifle expended for school but not church purpose. The seal writer of the Lawson letter did not even attend the concert nor has given a cent or even an hours labor in Sabbath School. The real object of the letter is not to aid the cause of education but to bring Mr Scott here under Am. Miss. Assn. & through him employ Mr Tukey & Mrs Dunn as Teachers. To accomplish this "financial" desideratum every effort has been made and if fair means