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spectacles most of the time. I did’not go to Quarterly Meet-
ing; I did not like to leave school. I*will endeavor to answer:
your questions as minutely as possible. .

**T began school 7th of Ninth month with twenty odd scholars,
I now have thirty-one. The colored people own the scool-house.
I regret to say no Sunday schools; I live so far, and the weather
is generally very unfavorable; besides the colored people have
preaching in the building almost every First-day ; hence our
First-day school has been discontinued.

The Standard and Intelligencer are received and frequently
distributed among those who can read. No money has been
collected and I am afraid cannot be. There is a colored Sab-
‘bath school within three or four miles of the C. H.; I think they
are furnished with books.

‘| hope the above will prove satisfactory. Will you please
tell me if my school closes a month earlier on account of begin-

ning in Ninth month? I hope not; I would like to continue as
long as the others do.”’

From Jennie Speer, Manassas, Va., 11th month 23d, 1868.

Yours of the 19th inst. was duly received, and I thank you
heartily for your kind offer to furnish books. You should have
seen the happy faces that greeted the announcement in school.
Some of the children furnish their own books, but there are
many who can scarcely clothe their children sufficiently to send
them to school, since the cold weather set in. The school is
improving slowly in numbers, and I can see that they are learn-
ing quite fast. I have been teaching under great disadvantages
because of the scarcity of books, and feel very much encouraged
at the prospect.

‘*¢ 1 commenced school on the 5th of October with ten scholars,
and have twenty-five on roll now. The Freeemen own the
school-house. I have a Sabbath school, and have no books but
a few Testaments; would like to have some more Bibles or
Testaments, at least a dozen; one and a half or two dozen
** Child’s Scripture Question Books,” some fancy tickets, merit
marks and other kind of books, such as good story books from
Bible characters, or any pretty stories with a good moral, easily
read and understood. - Some singing books, of any kind, would
be acceptable, but ean get along without them.

**T have received the Friends’ Intelligencer and Tribune but
not the Standard, and give them to the children when through
with them. I have received pay to Ist of First month, and will.
_ then report what I get from the Freedmen; hoping that they

may raise something by the 1st of Seventh month worth report-

ing.