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Tappahannock Va
Dec. 20" 1869

Mr R.M. Manly
Superintendent Education

Sir-
Your letter reached me by due course of mail. I regard a man like Robinson as more an object of pity than anything else. Mr Robinson and Mrs Ellett continued to teach school after I closed my session last July, and when they closed some three or four weeks afterward they jointly did not have more than fifteen children attending his school and I know to my certain knowledge that false returns were made to the Department. When he recommenced in September he could at no time get more than eighteen or twenty scolars. He called a meeting of the people I went the dirty filthy place he called his school room and the poor people refused to enter into an agreement by which he proposed to wit: To have each child pay ten cents per week for their tuition. Finding himself