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Baltimore      11  1869
General O O Howard
I take my  ^[[pen]] in hand ask you if you have A School in any of the Southern States that is not supplyed with Teachers we will be glad to go and do the very best that we can with our race as we have had six years experience in Teaching we will go to any part of the South But we would prefer virginia
Respectfully yours
John M. Fletcher
.j.m. Curtis

For reference H.L. Bond
Ex judee
of The Criminal Court 
of baltimore