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for a large graded school is very much needed; there are no schoolhouses here that can be rented for a colored school. I had great trouble to secure a place where I could continue my school at all, and now keep it in the parlors of a Union lady's house, with whom I also board. there was a school building vacant but they would not rent it to me. With suitable teachers in a free school there might be hundreds of scholars in school, but the people are too poor to pay tuition, and buy books; this is the chief obstacle to any work here; if I have scholars enough to support my school, I am obliged to take so miscellaneous a class, that no one teacher can do justice to them, while at the same time I could take many more with ease in a properly graded school.