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Willow Bank P.O. Va
Octo 8th 1888

Mess Joel Miller & Co
Charlottesville
Gents
Your Mr McD's letter of 6th is to hand
I have been advised concerning the lot No 20. that the house on it is really in law & by contract with the Confed. States my property - a claim which in time I hope to make good
Therefore I am not now prepared to accept the offer of the freedmen for the said lot - as I believe the establishment (permanently) of a school there might have the effect to injure the sale of the other lots to a degree
But I will make them their [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] propositions for their consideration

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