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sufficient to get up a small house 20 x 35 ft from and enclosed We have exhausted all our resources and yet lack seats and stove, Blackboard, fixtures & material to opening a school. Our house is designed for the use of the Freedmen for church and school purposes. No effort by any Society in this place or vicinity on behalf of the Freedmen, and my labours for them at very great sacrifices on my behalf has been met by the most unrelenting hatred and opposition from the Citizens of the neighborhood Through Rev Mr Cravath of Cincinnati I have the promise of means to pay the salary of a Teacher where we are prepared to open our school. But untill I can obtain assistance to finish