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night once they said they would pay for it, if they should not, I will do so myself, but it is not convenient to send it in this letter, Please send me some Blank Reports, and some of thos large envelops to send my Reports to Mrs. Lowell. If I should have to be removed from West Point, I do not wish to be sent to Eltham again. The man who we rent the school room from got very angry yesterday, and threatened to close the doors unless his money was paid for October immediately.  I do not believe he was afraid he would not get his money, but most of the Whites are rebels, and opposed to Colored schools. It is so very mean to wish to keep a race down, who have been oppressed so many years. I try to impress it upon my children that an education is the most important of all earthly objects.  Please write to Mr Anderson, concerning the rent, and make some arrangements.  So as we will not be annoyed