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so I am loth to send any one there until I hear what the people will do. If you will send us a recommendation of Thos. Davis from the Friend's Freedman Assn, for whom he has taught, we shall be glad to take him in the [[crossed out]] position you [[/crossed out]] character of teacher & superintendant as you suggest at not more than $40. - a mo. The 'Jones' you spoke of was a young Southerner, who, you said, had a school already established somewhere (I have mislaid your letter)- near the N.C. line I think, but I cannot remember where. We can pay $25.- salaries to fifteen or twenty country teachers. Shall I send the female teachers down on the first of October, if Owens & Johnson do not return? Truly yrs, J.S. Lowell Sec. &c. Mrs. Alston & Childs may count out $15. - each also.