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New York Mar 7th 1868
J.W. Vandenburgh
Local Supt - DC
Dear Sir
Your
favor of March 4th came duly to 
hand: and am under many 
obligations for a speedy answer.
Please
find enclosed ($9.00) nine 
dollars to defray expenses of girl.
We want a girl about twenty or
twenty five years of age: one who
will be satisfied to remain and
make it her home with us:
and not be drawn away by
connections to(?). We want her for
general housework. Our trouble
with the one we had was. - She
had to leave us every little while
to go back to Washington and see