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and he promised us aid to build the school house to an amount not exceeding six hundred if the people would do as much for it. We have written to Miss Gardner and Mr Abell about it and we hope you will do all in your power to hasten forward the work. We are perfectly willing to have the schools closed a little earlier for the sake of beginning the work as early as possible that the building may be ready for use in October.
We are pleased with our teachers work in Virginia. We found Mr Lucas a better teacher than we expected and his school house pretty good. I don't see but we can claim rental for that building as it was built and is owned by the people