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Gordonsville Virginia 
November 14th 1868
Rev. R.M. Manly
Dear Sir,
As I am very much in need of Books in my School at Mechanicsville Louisa Co. Va. I was advised by Maj's W.R. Morse to write to you in regard the matter, he said he thought that you would furnish the School under as liberal circumstance as could be obtained, I have a School of Eighty four Scholars, and there is not more then twenty of the number with proper Books, I have been useing Hillard's Books among all others I think the best. With my very limited experience in teaching only three sessions in Gordonsville I think the better, and only thorough method, of showing a general progress in the School is to have the Pupils Classified. but impossible to have them so when in different Books as they are now. This is their second attempt to