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Emmans P.O.
Bedford Co Va
May 2d 1869

Rev. R. M. Manly:-

Dear Sir:
With this please find my Report for the month of May. My School I am pleased to say is being attended much better than I had at one time expected. In compliance with your request I called a meeting of the patrons of my school on last sunday which was as early as I could get them together after receiving your letter I addressed them on the subject of your inquiry & found them very uniformly anxious to have the school kept up. They all express a willingness to pay 40 cents a month on each scholar which I think is as much they would be able to do in justice to their other needs I told them so far as the matter of who was to be their teacher was concerned, I wished them to act perfectly in accordance with their own wishes. They urge me to continue if the school can be got. I told them I had suffered a good deal of persecution on their account & they had manifested a generous appreciation of that fact in spite of all. The designing efforts to injure in their estimation and that I certainly should not leave their service if it was the wish of the society to continue me. Another consideration connected with it is that having a small farm I could afford them opportunities to pay their tuition fees which others perhaps could not do. If you can assure me of $40 pr month I will risk the balance on