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King Wm County Va
King Wm Court House Va
Dec 23d 1869.

Dear Sir,
Yours of 10th inst is recd. I am not ready for a Teacher. Have plenty of Books 
But the Freedmen dont wake up. I wish I could get an appropriation to build with sufficient to push it ahead. Schools are nowhere needed more than in the Country. Will you write me whether I can get enough money to build with for three school Houses. I am sorry to say that the Freedmen have disappointed me, & even deceived me about the work, but that is the stronger reason why it should succeed. Nowhere to my knowledge has the schoolwork been made up nearly self supporting as I attempted. I submit that I have done well in getting all the Books needed. My heart is in this work. Shall I be sustained in carrying it through to success?  Can you induce some benevolent Christian Society to take the field & make it bring forth fruit? I am in Earnest please do all you can for me.