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Draper's Valley 
Aug. 5 69 
M. F. Smith .
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Draper's Valley August the 5th 1869
Pulaski Co. Va.
Mr R. M. Manly

Dear Sir It was entirely against my will to expel Burks children from school bus. I thought whilest Mr. Matthews was angry It would be better to stop them at his request than to stop the whole school I thought his anger would abate & then we could proceed as heretofore he declared he would Abolish the school forthwith unless those children was expelled I would not have you to think that I was in favor of stoping those children I regretted it much
Now I under stand since I wrote the whol neighborhood chiefly had conspired to stop the school In ten day after the election simpely because they went Radically

Transcription Notes:
Burks or black?