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Leonards Town, Jan 9th 1868.

Rev. John Kimball.— — Dear Sir.
Lawyer Key a gentleman who claims to have been introduc to you, advises me to write you, & give you some statement of my arrest, & show you the faults accusual & the bribed oaths taken against me.— — I being invitted to hold a meeting in the school-house at Leonards Town, by the teacher & colored people in general (as ^[[insert]] I had [[/insert]] talked to them at night schools before,) the woman with whom I took my meals, had leave of her husband to spend her Christmas near Leonards Town, with her friends, but as I were to ride & she to walk, she asked me not to ride, but to walk with her. I refused to do it, saying it was too far, & on Christmas morning went & got the horse, & returned to get ready. soon after I had arrived her husband's brother came to take her on a horse too, but she refused to ride behind him, saying that she was afraid his horse would fall down (it is true he looked much like it) & she would rather ride behind me, as mine was to known to be a very pleasent riding horse,