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that source. Should I address you again with reference to the matter, I may then be able to be more definite. As the plan is yet in its incipiency, I wish to be careful.

To these Pittsburg men, a plan something like the following has suggested itself: to go a short distance, say half mile or mile, from Town, and purchase 50 or 100 acres of land; reserve say 10 acres for Institution purposes, and sell the remainder in small lots to Freedmen who may wish to secure [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] homes; lots of one acre, more or less, each. A building large enough to accommodate about 300 pupils. The lots to be sold very cheap, and terms of payment to be made very easy.

From what I have learned, I feel certain that the Executors would secure land, and quite likely support the Teachers, perhaps, for some years. The next thing would be the building. We should have to look to other sources for that, I am confident. My object, or at

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Unsure of two words in first paragraph.