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Marlin. Falls County. Tex. March 18" AD. 70. Rev. Jos. Welch. Dear sir. I sincerely ask you to Pay the Rent of a house that we can get for Fifteen dollars. I commenced teaching on the 28 of Feb. 1870. I am teaching in an old wood shop a bout half coverd dirt floor and a bout half weather boarded it is very disagreelbe. the citizens has no place no church no where to teach in the colord citizens has had bad luck in Falls County we all know they never have had any school in F. Co. of any importance since the war. I have thirty five Scholars total enrollment. I think that we can have a fine school if we can get a house to teach in according to prospects in the course of a month I will have 50 or 60 pupils. in the mean while I am in hopes that you will continue to give me my Salary which was fifteen dollars per month. the Freedmen are very poor here I dont think that they will pay me Enough to buy my to [[Bacry?]].
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