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King William Court House
December 18th 1867.

Mr Manley 
Supt of Education 
Richmond Va.

Dr Sir

My school work hangs fire. I hoped for too much help from the Freedmen. They have promised splendidly and have delayed in performance. The necessity for securing their crops accounts partly for delay but want of unity in the work is the great trouble. They dont know how to pull together except the fact that Books enough are here for the work it is but very little further advanced than a month ago. I still believe that the Freedmen must do part of the work to feel that interest in it which will induce them to keep the schools going when once commenced but I also believe that I at first hoped for too much. There ought to be for their Religious Educational and political good a white missionary here and Colored Teachers from away. They are jealous of those living among them who have a smattering of education.