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If they can find any [[underlined]] whites heathen [[/underlined]] these or any more degraded people than these I would not ask of them to help [[underlined]] us [[/underlined]], for certainly the colored people of this town are religiously morally and intellectually lower than any people I have ever been among. [[strikethrough: illegible]] There is so much to be done that one hardly knows what to do first, at any rate we want "the pledge" to stop whisky drinking. Please send it to us. Can you not tell me how I may open a correspondence with some society in order to get help from time to time?

Capt Lawrence will be in Wash. soon and if you will confer with him I shall be obliged.

Respectfully,

[[signature]] Kittie E. Gould [[/signature]]