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Bristol R- L- June 14 /-69 R- M- Manley I thought of trying to get a married laborer school started for freedmen have a form and mechanicals they could leave a trade or to farming so many hours to work each day & so many hours to study Pleas write me what you think of it I will give 1000 and- and thinks I can beg 1000 more can you buy land in Miss or N- or South Carolina for 1 or 2 or 3,.- for are where your be the best place to locate sutch school your in hope Elisha Hathaway Bristol Rhode [[Sleane?]] pleas write me