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To the Committee in Charge of the Colored Orphanage Richmond Va.

Dear Friends

I reopened the school at the Orphanage after a vacation of three months 10th [[mo?]] 8th 1/08 and closed 8th [[mo?]] 1/09. The average attendance of the whole session was 58, though during the winter months it was much larger 70 were often in attendance. The Branches taught were reading writing geography and arithmetic of advanced the second reader class to the Third and the Third to the Fourth. Many in the Primary Department who did not know their letters when they came learned to read well. but the progress