Viewing page 68 of 235

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

we wish to do more. Without the aid we confidently expected your own knowledge of the importance of our work would insure [[ensure]] us, we shall be seriously crippled in our means, and will have to curtail at some point where means for efficiency is absolutely needed. 

Please do not "drop" us down here in the mud. Take us up once more & lift us over this year, I know you cannot possibly spend a dollar to better advantage to the cause. There is no place where you can do more present & prospective good than to help us one more year in Petersburg.
I am
with sentiments of esteem
Your obt. serv't
R.G. Greene Prest. 
Bd. of Ed. 

Rev. R.M. Manly
Supt. Education