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Seneca County Academy
Republic Ohio
Nov 17th 1868
Wm M Colby Superintendent of Education
Dear Sir ... I replied to your last some days since. I write you again to state that as soon as we can collect the necessary funds $50 a piece according to one of your letters, to defray our necessary expenses on the way we will depart for Little Rock. I am going out among the churches and see if I can collect that amount among my friends and acquaintances. The money we had laid aside for that purpose has been used up by sickness. Stories are told here of the terrible cruelty of rebels to the union people of the south