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In November here, Miss Emily Nowland, whose devoted labor began two years ago in a school for Colored girls in Washington, brought me to Lottsburg and we opened the school - on the 16th of Novr
 
We taught beside the day school, night school two evenings of the week, and the same men & women Sundays. Their eagerness to learn to read, write, and cipher made their progress astonishing, even to Miss Nowland, and to me it was almost miraculous.

They all have fine brains, and are superior in intelligence to any people Miss N. had known before in her long acquaintance with the race. The Night & Sunday School numbered about 50 in all, and 30 was the average attendance. About half of them began with the alphabet; now most can write their names intelligibly - with dates &c.

We found the house only a shell, with its thin board partition; and the suffering of the children was so great from chills and cold, as the severe weather came on, we saw it was necessary to have the house plastered or the valuable winter schools would be an impossibility.
 
The timely visit of a Boston friend, Col. Folsom, and the counsel and 

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