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Farmville Va May 22 1868
[[right margin]] Farmville
May 22d '68
Jackson [[/right margin]]

Rev RM Manly
Supt. Education &c
Richmond

Dear Sir

I received your Box of books &c in reference to my appeal and Mr Marshalls request and commenced distribution the next day conferring this the scholars actually attending S. Schools for the commencement. These books will act as a great stimulus and lead the freedpeople to see the necessity of education. The change on our streets on the Sabbath since the S. School was taken in hand is as surprizing as it is gratifying and shows that labor bestowed in this direction will return abundant fruit. The salarie of the day school teachers are suspended from 1st Inst. but the ladies have offered to remain longer without pay. The "enemy" seems to direct the fire of her batteries chiefly against education for even here where school is free when teachers are able and persevering, and ignorant children so numerous. "he" has sown the seeds of distrust and discontent and men so ignorant as scarcely in vulgar parlance to be able to tell "B, from Bulls foot" presume to question the ability of the teachers. It is really as if the clay should say to the potter, who forms it