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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
May 2nd, 1904.

Harry S. Andrews, Esq.,
Sheffield, Mass.
Dear Sir:--

Your letter of April 30th is received and fully noted. 

I am much pleased to know that Mrs. Glenny in interesting herself in the colored people of New Guinea; and I am glad, too, that at the town meeting it was voted to furnish a school-house for the New Guinea settlement.

Your suggestion to move the school-house now standing on my property at the corner on the undermountain road seems to me most excellent, and, naturally, I would like to get rid of it.  I was at my farm a few days ago, and my farmer told me that there was some talk about its removal, and I then authorized him to allow the Selectmen to remove it at any time they might choose to do so. The building is of no use where it is, and if it is allowed to go without attention much longer, it will be a total ruin.  In order to assist in the matter, I gladly offer the use of my teams to draw the material from the present site, after the school-house has been demolished, to the place chosen for its re-erection, and