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Leesburg
N
Melrose Nov 8th 1869

R M Manly
Supt Ed

Sir
The school at Brandon will be a failure as the representations are far from being realized  My Daughter went there last Monday (Nov 1) it being the time set to commence operations there, I went with her to see that evry thing was in proper order found that they had done nothing to prepare the house for school  I took hold in about two hours put all thing in order but no [[strikethrough]] scholars [[/strikethrough]] come she concluded to give then a fair trial & see if they wanted a school, she

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there's a word in the right margin that I can't make out