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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 nine hundred dollars to make such a house comfortable is the home from it. If we had a stove 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 Philadel have located me here. I will address Capt Schafer also in Gernestown Phila
Truly yours,
Alonso B Corliss
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