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greatly gov't has withdrawn the transportation fund of teachers- especially of such as are willing like us in Northumberland Co. to give our services without pay to the Cause.
I am glad you inquire if we are supported by any charitable association.
I answer we are not. Miss Emily Howland who opened the first school near Mr. Nash in Heathsville came with her own means and bought 400 acres of land on which to settle some Freedmen she bro't from Arlington (& sell to colored people at low rates) where she had taught & labored, during the War on the same independent plan- with a quiet heroism & self-sacri