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Washington D C 1866 and 1867 Jan the 26 Dear Sir Since I received my Appointment of manager. I have not sent it in as I intended to do for this reason not having the time to report at the end of the month I hope that you will excuse me for it I have married some of all for [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] the free men 15 8 had been as man and wife be for some 4 children some 3 some 2 some 1 children, and 15 who never were marred before now seem to be happey. S of them do listens 8 of them Great meney no pay to me I have a large famely
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I struggled with some of the words.
? This is really hard to read! -- Beth)
Punctuation unclear / absent. -- Charles)