Martha Schofield letter to her sisters

Schofield describes hosting her former co-teacher Mary Taylor Stone and her husband Major William Stone for a lengthy visit, which included a "masked party." She discusses her attempts to encourage "Bureau money" to be allocated to build a non-sectarian school building on her lot of land, rather than being given to the Methodists to build a church and schoolhouse. She hopes that if the Freedmen's Bureau is dissolved they put General O. O. Howard at the head of the Educational Bureau and "all will be right." She expects to spend Easter with Carrie Taylor Corbin, Major David Corbin, and the Stones in Charleston. She also adds that she is keeping busy trying to get her former students settled, including Lawrence Obanyon Posey and Allen A. Scott.