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Mt Solon Va  Jun 13th 1870

To Hon R M Manly
Richmond, Va.

Dear Sir
I write to inform you that the School I wrote to you of Have been Resent By the whites they Dont they dont want us to have a school here they have Taken Posession of the School House the Broke the lock off the Door of the school House which was a old Building the colord people had obtained leave to teach in and as soon as we fixed it up they Broke the lock and taken the Possesion of the same