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W.S. Primers, which I shall forward to him. I would like fifty copies of the large H.Y. Primer for his school.

One of the principal schools in this County has been discontinued, though I am in hopes of reestablishing it. I refer to the school at Manakin taught so long and so successfully Miss Roberta D. Scott. This school took a vacation of several weeks, and was about to recommence on the fifteenth of September, when Miss Scott who was visiting her friends in Richmond, received a note from the Gen. Stone the Superintendant of the Dome Mining Company, saying that he could not effect a satisfactory arrangement with the colored men to have their pay stopped as heretofore for tuition fees, and the sentiment of the people was strongly in favor of a free school.

I have no confidence that the project to establish a free school there will be carried out and if Miss Scott is to be driven off in this manner, the result will probably be that there will be no school in Manakin.

I have written her in regard to the matter, and