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[[?]] D.C Dec. 7th 1866 Mr Kimball Kind sir. I have been teaching a colored school, which is under the charge of the Old School Presbyterian Association for eight weeks as they do not feel able and cannot support me longer I [[apply]] to you for a [[?]] in the new building here when completed I am not [[?]] under which association I labor [[providing?]] I can work in this cause I have [[?]] twenty five dollars sent to me from the North for the education of the freedmen and will give it to which ever association employs me.