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benefit of normal instruction. But the parents are for the most part degraded & too poor to do much toward educating them.
In regard to salary for the coming winter, we do not know what expenses we might be obliged to incur at the Point & the labors are arduous. I at least depend upon myself entirely for support. A salary that other teachers have had & are having would be satisfactory.
By the evening's mail I received yours of the 24th.
The avg attds of my school for April was 23. I closed my school the first of May & wrote to Mr Manly to that effect giving my reasons for so doing. The vouchers for the Peabody Fund were made out to Mr Manly throughout the season In Apr I had