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Office of the Friends' Freedmen Association of New York, S.H. Jones, Sup't, No. 9, 23d Street,
Richmond, Va. 2nd Mo. 8th 1869

O.O. Howard 

Esteemed friend,
I visited a few days since Clover Depot, and I feel it a duty to report to thee the great need of a school in that locality. 

A wealthy lady in New York was passing there last fall and the while stopping 20 minutes for dinner was impressed with the great number of children around the Depot and on inquiry found they had no school nor have ever had one. She at once offered to pay the salary of a good teacher there one year and my visit was to procure a suitable place to open the school.

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