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by 2 1/2 deep making two apartments in one it has one window of eight panes of glass & a place for another but no sash; only one half of the room can be warmed, in stormy weather the other half is so dark & uncomfortable that the scholars are obliged to keep shifting from one side of the chimney to the other, & there is scarce spare floor enough for me to set a chair, to say nothing of the inconvenience occasioned by want of room in recitations: & I find in warm days it's quite as uncomfortable as in cold. There is a room in the basement of the dwelling house which would make a comfortable school room if it had windows & a plank floor, there are places for windows but no sash, if the Bureau could assist us this room might be made a good school room at a moderate expense, but as it is now it's much worse than the other on account of the dampness & darkness. We are troubled now to accommodate our Sunday School the Col. people have no place of worship except as the "white" give them the use of theirs, as they call it (the Col. people think they ought to have a right to it of their own) & they are not willing for us to have the Sunday School there. we have it here. Now Sir I've been round among these people & it seems they are doing all they can for the school. it surprises me that they try to do so much as they do. Mr Turpin & Moseley are not able to fit up this other room at present. Mr Turpin has no

[[note]] Goochland May 13 69 Miss Harper [[note]]