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Washington, May 28th 1869

Mr Manley,

Dear Sir
We spent two or three days at Charlottesville and thoroughly examined the building there and talked with Mr Abell one of the trustees and with many of the best of the colored people. We tried to see Judge Rivers but he was absent. We felt that it would be very unwise to attempt to make the old barracks into a comfortable school house. The foundation and roof are unsafe. It leaks badly, there was a stream of water running through the entry when we got there, the chimneys