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Calvert County  June 14th 1870.

Dear Friends,
I take the libberty to address you a few lines to inform you how our teacher (M. L. Hoy) was treated the 6th and 7th of June while holding and exibition for her scholars in the school house and some of the trusttees came and locked her and some of the scholars in the school house without any cause so they have abuse her and said things disrespectful of her things that she is not guilty of  she has lived with me longer than anyone else since she has been teching school here  she was with me all the while they were abuseing her, and I am a witness that it is not so  I am now 58 years of age and she