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P.157 & 158 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Headquarters, Eighth Sub-District of Virginia. Wytheville, Va., Dec 30 1868. Rev R.M. Manly Supt Education Dear Sir. I want to make a little explanation of what I am doing. If anything in it doesn't meet the concurrence of yourself & Genl Brown I can stop it. Finding S. M. Fulton had changed his mind about [[strikethrough]] the land [[/strikethrough]] selling the land I wrote you about in my last. I got an acre of a Mr Steptoe for $20 I shall with the help of the blacks, put a comfortable school house on it for $90. This I shall have to & am willing to advance, taking my chance of getting back what I can at about $7.50 a month, the other $7.50 of the $15, appropriation going necessarily to the Teacher & perhaps the whole for 3 months, until I get stove, benches &c pd for. Hastin Fultons land is fixed so that I had to get my Deed of one Dickey [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] I have bought an acre of him for $25 The school house is on it. This I shall have to repair. & put windows stove & benches into. I have a fine school started