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Emaus P.O. Bedford Co. Va Dec 2nd, 1869 Rev R M Manly With this please find my Report for Nov. I am sorry to have to forward you so scanty an attendance, but the Freedman not knowing certainly that any school would be opened till about the 1st of the month had made no preparation for starting their children. The weather too has been very bad during nearly the whole month and very few of them come in a condition in the way of clothing to outer school and those that have come here have to be quite irregular in consequence of the weather. My school is beginning to fill up now and will continue to increase rapididly particularly during the winter months and I am assured that there will be a good attendance during the whole term. I misunderstood the term offered by Mrs. Lowell it seems and and am likely not to receive with what I shall be able to collect from the Freedmen as much by a good deal as I have been in the habit of getting but as I have commenced I will continue it and if you can advance more from the J Land. I shall be much oblige. [[strikethrough]] I enclose [[/strikethrough]] Please forward me check for the $10 to be paid by you by return of mail as I am in need of the money and oblige. Very Respectfully, Your Obt Servt James S. Lazenby