G. W. Gardiner ALS to A[nna] M. C. Barnes, November 17, 1862

Leavenworth Kansas
Nov. 17, 1862.

Mrs. A.M.C. Barnes

Madam -

Your favor of the 10th enclosing
draft for 38.38/100 favor of S. Cornell & payable to my order
was received on Saturday.

Mr. Overton, the teacher of the school was very
glad to receive it. He says the payments from
the the school do not quite pay the expenses
of [K---t?] fuel &c. I gave him an order for the
box of books you were so kind as to send, and
told him to distribute them among the
children, whose parents were the poorest, so
those who could bring them should do so.

Mr. O. says he will buy the slates and
distribute them with the books.

The school will be kept up, and I have requested
Mr. O. to send word to all the families in the
City, that none need stay away because they
cannot pay.

The remark of Genl. Wadsworth to yr friend, is true
here as well as there. How many strange facts
revolutions bring to light. Among others this, that
the world is full of moral cowards. Another thing
I hope is equally true, that as "Revolutions never