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Mr Councill employ at the rated of $3.00 a week till I hear from you Sir; He has taught, two & a half months, and was received for his services a little more than $19.00; he says he will have to go back to his old business of waiter; unless he can earn more than that Mr Councill earned his letters in March, 64 he says he is the best scholar of all that school. He's just 21 and were he not a married man I should think he was worthy of a scholarship in the Ashman Institute He will be very glad to belong to the Normal class, if he can teach at the same time, he says there are several girls in this place that he thinks would do the same. If Miss Dean should write to you today she would not write quite so cheerily as she did on the 18th. She is boarding in a miserable place, poor as it is I would share it with her if I could persuade the people to take me as here i have to pay $1.00 a week, I feel to night that there is no use, in trying to do anything, but to throw our lot in with the colored people, but perhaps I will feel brighter tomorrow. Yours Resptfly H.R. Starkweather