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Port Tobacco Charles. Co. Md.
May 20. 1869-

Revd.John Kimball
Supt. of Education
Washington D.C.

Sr:- 
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13, which I received, only, on the 19, as I did not, before then, expect a letter.
I presume that you have received my letter of the 15. which furnished the answer to your inquiry of the condition of the School, here, in yours of the 13. 
I am pleased to know that, you "expect me to do well", here, because I shall always knows that, I have your approval in a faithful discharge of my duty. 
The unpleasant information from Charlestown in regard to my having a wife there of which you - speak is accounted for by the following plain facts as they are known to God, my own conscience, and several witnesses; which facts I now lay before you for your most earnest consideration.
By the Rev. William Jackson, a colored Baptist Clergyman, now stationed at Berryville, Clark Co. West Virginia. I was induced to leave my relations in Boston, mass. on the 27 Sept 68. to take charge of a School at Charlestown, W.Va. out $40.00 per. month.
Soon after entering my new field of labor, I become acquainted with a colored woman who had had two bastards by separate fathers.
During last Christmas this woman circulated a report that she was with child by me.
The Rev. John Lyles, a colored Baptist clergyman, then stationed at Charlestown W.Va. but who now is in Elmira W. York. my adviser who has heard the re[[end page]]