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Sandgates Farm
2nd mo 7.66.

J. Kimble,

Esteemed Friend.
I was so glad to get thy kind letter last night.

Since I wrote thee last I found that why it was difficult for me to get board here was, & why I had been treated rudely, that I had been represented to be not a good girl. One of my Home friends advised me to state the case to General Howard. I wanted only to thee, But I was advised to do so to him, as he was the 1st of the Bureau. I have faith in thee & L't Clark both because you look good & true. But I concluded