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Madison C. H. Va
May 24th 1869

R. M. Manly Esq.
Supt Education
Richmond Va

Dear Sir
Since moving my school for reasons which I explained and which you approved it has been rumored that Catherine Gordon was in communication with you relative to sending another teacher here, and on Thursday this rumor was verified by the arrival of a lady who says she has been directed by you to come here and with promises of more aid than myself or my co-laborers have ever received. From a conversation with the lady, I learn that she has been sent by you, rent was to be paid for her, her board furnished and fifteen dollars per month guaranteed her, part of which she was to get from the scholars at 40¢. each, while the teachers who have been laboring here for the past seven months are left to pay their own board, and otherwise do the best they can.
She also told me that she was informed that I had left here and that there was no school. Now you could have told her, that there was a school here, and had been for the past seven months. I would like to know who gave you the information (if you have received any) that led you to send the lady here for when I last wrote you I did not intimate that I was about to leave, or I would not have asked you for a transfer of rent.   
The town can but illy afford to pay one teacher and if aiding freedmen in getting an education is the object of the Bureau R. F. and A. L. I think that such collision between teachers and misunderstandings between teachers and officers of the Bureau should be guarded against as much as possible. There is ample field in Virginia for