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Nov 25th

E. F. Hatfield, D.D.
Home Missions
New York.

Dear Sir
Yours to Dr Harper is at hand. There is no use specifying places [[?]] schools as the catalogue would embrace the whole state.
We are trying to throw the responsibility of educating all classes upon local authority but succeed only partially as many of those people think they did magnanimously when they consented to allow the negroes the privilege of an education, although in several counties of the state one man has [[?]] who consents to act as Supt of Education under the new law and who is at present endeavoring to set the machinery in motion. One difficulty we encounter in establishing colored schools out of larger towns is finding suitable