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Clover Depot Va Dec 21 1869 Rev RM Manly Dear Bro Will you write me definitely what you can do for the building of a school house here. Capt Schafer has secured a good title to the land and the colored people will go to work if they had the lumber. It will take one hundred dollars to make such a house comfortable as the new framed. If we had a stone we could begin a school in a rented house Will send us one from Richmond with six joints of pipe and one elbow It will be expensive to start a school here but the friends of Philade. home located me here. I will address Capt Schafer also in Germantown Phila. Truly yours Alonso Blerliss Please send your reply to Clover Depot