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the schools here (or even in connexion with the schools through Elizabeth City Co.) and can pay me a part or the whole of a fair salary, it may change my mind about retiring.  Our Missionary Association has so great a work upon its hands and will have so much additional expense to maintain teachers, now that rations are cut off, that I will not ask them to increase my salary.

Please let me have a line from you before I leave here next Tuesday and as I wish this note to be entirely confidential, your reply shall be the same and shall be destroyed as soon as it is read - I want it purely for my own guidance.

Yours &c
E. Knowlton

Col. O. Brown
Richmond Va

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