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Petersburg, Va
18th Feby/69

Rev. R. M. Manly - 
Dear Sir. 
The "Home Mission for Color'd People." under which our school was established has been unable this season, to furnish us any funds for fuel. - We have been unable to collect even a five-cent tax (weekly) on the children. So until the present time, hoping for aid from some quarter. We have, when there was any on hand, reluctantly shared in the fuel supplied by the few