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encouragement of Mr. Nash with our own efforts have resulted in the lathing, ceiling, and plastering of the house- a great undertaking for the poor people who might not, in years, have been able to do it for themselves, so burdened with heavy taxes, and the support of their families, & still oppressed by disabilities because of their landless, a dependent condition.

The school was necessarily suspended: In a few days all will be ready to go on again with the improved state of the house, and a large increase of scholars - whose clothes were not ready before, and the late gathering of corn and husks, has kept out.

The "Holley School" like the "Nowland School" here (also opened by Miss Nowland more than a year & a half ago), now taught by Miss Goodyear, has been adopted by the New York Association of Friends for the Aid & Education of Freedmen &c to which our reports are made.

These interesting colored people seem to be the material from which the future prosperity of Virginia must grow.

Their industry, intelligence and virtue are of the utmost importance to the general welfare, and the sacred trust you hold of aiding their development must be hailed by every benevolent heart with gratitude.