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[[top margin]]John Scott[[/top margin]]

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,
(CENTRAL OFFICE, 53 JOHN STREET, N.Y.)
Mission Home, Staunton Va May 17th 1869

Col. R. M. Manly
Richmond.

Dear Sir
We shall close school two or three days before the first of June - or soon enough next week to permit the ladies to reach home before Saturday night. Will send you Reports in time
-Please see that vouchers for rent [[crossed out]] are sent [[crossed out]] in time.
The colored people are quite anxious now to erect a school house sinse your visit - but - as they owe $12 00 in their cemetery which they are trying to pay [[crossed out]] for [[/crossed out]] - and as the Spring finds them mostly destitute of funds having used their surplus during the winter, I don't see as anything can be done, at least