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Brunswick County
May 8th 1869

Mr R. M. Manly

Dear Sir

Your letter dated the 16th April came to hand some time ago and I have written to you two or three times since the receipt of your letter and have not received any answer yet. You stated in your letter that you would like to be informed when I commenced my school and also how much the people doing to aid in its support. I commenced 1st day of last March and have been teaching ever since and I have got twenty five scholars and their parents are to pay me twenty five cents per scholar per month but I have never collected anything yet and the most of them are not willing to pay that. And I had a large house built