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I am sorry that this is the case as I stand in need of immediate employment. As I informed you in my first letter, I received transportation letters from the New England Branch of the Freedmen's Aid Union and a Commission as one their teachers and therefore I cannot conscientiously take up any other business, unless compelled to do so from lack of employment in this. I shall go to Thomasville this P.M. where I shall probably remain for a few days.
Please address me at that place and if you have any encouraging news it will be most gratefully received by
Yours respectfully
H.S. Payne.