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the interest at Newbern, Pulaski Co. will not succeed- although so recently in a flourishing condition. If the Building could receive the necessary repairs, at a very early day- and the teacher supplied as is partially promised us, by the Philadelphia Branch of the Episcopal Freedmens
Commission, there would be no difficulty in the way; but a large and flourishing school would be inaugurated. The school at Christiansburg still continues in a Dwarfish condition for want of accomodations- notwithstanding every possible effort has been made to secure a suitable Room, or the erection of a School House. We have the money necessary to purchase the Lot, but no funds for the erection of the building. The School interest here must suffer, unless some assistance is obtained in its behalf. 

Although at present we have but one regularly established school in the three counties (the one in Christiansburg) yet the work of educating the Freedchildren is gradually going forward, under many disadvantages, yet with encouraging success. During the past three months, thorough the kindness of personal friends in Philadelphia, I have distributed about one thousand copies of Primers, Easy Lessons and First and Second Readers, which in many cases have already been entirely committed to memory, and application is being made for books of a higher order.

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