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within a mile or two at from $15. to $18. per month. This and a little more could and would be paid by the Freedmen - but, as the county is very poor, they could not do a great deal.

In the course of a year or two I think it would be advisable to have a school at the Court House, another in that part of the county south of the Blackwater, and a third at a location some five miles south east of Cabin Court at which places they, by that time, can be established on a footing similar to those already mentioned. I do not consider it sagacious to attempt establishing these at present, as the public mind is not yet prepared for so great a change in preceived ideas - although it is undergoing a gradual but certain change in favor of educating the Freedpeople, and several prominent and influential gentlemen have privately expressed to me their approval of the plan, and promised to aid me in changing the sentiment of the masses in this particular - and yet these individuals dare not yet act openly in the matter.
Very Respl,
I am obt. Servt.
J. W. Sharp
Capt & Asst. Supt.
Cluny & Sussex Cos. Va.