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Mc Kay School.  Dinwiddie County Aug. 22nd 1868

Mr. Manly:
Dear Sir your very kind letter came safely to hand on the 13th; and I would have replied before, but had no paper out here, suitable for a letter: therefore I hope you will pardon me for not answering sooner. Some of my dear little children have the Diphtheria; a disease very prevalent in the neighborhood, and they have been very sick, but I hope they are better now. The school prospers in every other respect. I hope to be able to take a week's vacation, the last of Sept. 

I scarcely know how to apologise for writing you the news I received in the country about our kind friend Maj. Stone. It came to me by a respectable colored man who said he heard it that day from a man who had just that day come from town. I am sorry for having written about a report the authenticity of which I could not vouch. My great embarrassment in this case will teach me a good lesson. I was pleased to hear from you that he was well. I do sincerely hope that his life of usefulness may be prolonged to hoary age. I expect to start for Richmond the 28th of Sept; will stop at the Bakery until I can see you and know what to do. I conversed with a gentleman this afternoon