![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
that we can pay the salaries (about $15 or $20 a mo.]) of probably twenty or thirty country teachers next year; if the Bureau still continues to pay rents, of course we can do much more (& very likely even if it does not), but we do not want to promise more than we can perform. I personally do not want to take the Richmond Schools again, but might we not have some of the Country Schools instead & so free funds for them? We shall have no meeting before Sept. 20th - will that be time and decide the question? If so, please write fully about it, that I may have something to say before the Com'ee. I should of course like to know how many teachers you want in the country, & at what salaries, as soon as may be, but are especially anxious about that possible Normal School. Truly yours, J.S. Lowell Mem. Com. &c. I am glad A.R. Johnson did so well.