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Please direct to Mrs. Cheney, as usual I suppose you have, by this time heard Mrs. Ballis decision not to go South at all this year. It is a great disappointment to us. I should think such a school as the Richmond Normal should command a graduate fresh from our State Normal Schools, & the best way would be to apply to the Principals of these Schools, which some of us will do, if you desire it.

We have received a letter from Mr. Abell, one of two Trustees having the Charlottesville Building in charge, who reports that he has "made a good contract, & it will be necessary to secure (as Mr Manly intimated might be done) several payments from