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Eastville VA Aug 31/69 Mr R.M. Manly Assist Sup of Schools Bureau RF&AL at Richmond Va Respected sir we have had no Bureau blank this month, I therefore send a few lines. We have been less in the number 103 this month, in consequence of extreme heat, & some of those who formerly paid tuition, now cannot get money to pay it. & therefore prefers to wait, a while. The Crops of white & Colored bring so little it does not pay for their labor anything like. Our school is geting along pretty well, we cannot complain. Our people