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to take on itself our whole school system, undiminished, which would be a gratification to ourselves, as much as it would be a benefit to them. Hence I sincerely trust that you will authorize me to extend to teachers now employed an assurance that their occupation will continue until the approach of New Years day shall enable us to make the effort which I have submitted to you to transfer them to the State.

It is a work too precious to let go, in which a loss of headway means a loss of education to a number out of all proportion to the expenditure involved.

Pardon so long a letter. If you will send but two lines of affirmative reply, covering both points,