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DECEMBER · 1887 I have given Mr. Hamilton a position here and ~ hope he will do well. He will be here this week. My wife is pretty well now. Yours faithfully B. T. Washington ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. ~ Woman's Home Missionary Association. From Missouri C. Strong Felmington,~ Ala., Dec. I, 187 My dear teacher: It is with the greatest of pleasure I write, anxious to tell you of my success in work. I am teaching at the same place I first taught. My school opened on the seventh of Nov. with ten pupils, now have forty on roll. Daily attendance is about thirty six. I am getting along very nicely at present. The people seem to like my way of teaching very much. My school will run for five months. Two of which will be independent. There are only seventy six dollars of public money. The sum is quite small, but the people were so anxious to have me teach for them, I agreed to do so. Since I have been here, I have gotten them to build a nice school house. It is very comfortable indeed. We also have it furnished nicely with stove, blackboards, globe, and desks. I have a nice Sabbath School too; something that never has been allowed to have here before. From twenty to twenty five attend nearly every Sunday. The scholars pay for their quarterlys every quarter. I would be ever so glad to have you send us any kind of reading matter that you have to spare. The people seem to be very interested in the school work, and they try to do everything I ask of them towards building up the school. I am trying all I can to break up some of the bad habits that so 393