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Republic Ohio
Aug 10th 1868

Wm M. Colby

Dear Sir-

Your letter to me of July 22nd is at hand. Before it came I had written to Rev. M. P. Forbes Pastor of Baptist Church, East Pembroke New York [[strikethrough]] Church [[/strikethrough]] (according to the directions you gave me in your first letters) to write you for me a letter of recommendation.  Miss Jennie E. Bergstresser has written to Rev. Mr. Baker Pastor of Lutheran Church Altoona Pennsylvania for a letter of recommendation.  We are both of us from the east and have not been very long here.  Miss Bergstresser has lived in this state longer than I have.  I am a member of the church here and were it not that I have written to Elder Forbes for a recommendation (according to your first letter) I would send you my church letter (according to your last). I presume either