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 88 Charles Henry Carey Lucy Hedding 1 Sarah Stevens Sarah Rich I Rebecca Rich, (lately adm.) 32 7 52 28 53 8 10 Deducting the apprentices, the runaway and the one taken away, leaving on the school list twenty-three schol- ars. Some of this absence is from sickness and some for labor on the farm, as it is a manual labor school. I believe I shall come to the conclusion to discontinue this school. I have no idea of ever being able to hear how a great proportion of the appropriation made to this Mis- sion has been expended. Perhaps the Board will obtain from Brother Lee all the information that can be ob- tained on the question. Sat. 15. For a few days I have been right busy in writing to the Board and friends in the states, to be sent over the mountains by a small party who design to return to the states. Sun. 16. Preached at the school, forty-five hearers, old and young, white and Indian. Mon. 17. Finished our letters. My letters to the Board mostly filled with reference to the Indian manual labor school. Tues. 18. Visited at Mr Holman's. 10 Mr H. married Miss Phelps, who came to the territory in the great ex- citement of 1840, as a female teacher. I inquired of her how long she had taught school since she came. Answer, nearly two months. She informed me she used to keep an account of everything that was taken from mission goods for each scholar, but no one had ever inquired for the account. The largest number she had on her school list was 32, the highest number I am able to find on the list at any time was 42. Mrs Holman speaks like all the others I have seen and conversed with on the subject, of the large reinforcement. They were so thick that they 10 Joseph Holman, an immigrant with the Peoria party, 1839-40, mar- ried, in Oregon, Almira Phelps, a teacher, who came with the fourth group of Methodist missionaries, June 1, 1840.