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To the Freedmans Bureau in Texas
Gentlemen Sirs you will please excuse my ignorance in not knowing better how to address you but as I wish to get employment in that department in that state  I shall venture to Send this addressed to the Freedmens Bureau in Texas hoping it will reach you and that you will condescend to answer me at your earliest convenience I will state 1st that I am a man sixty years old but of strong constitution well. active and apparently much younger than I really am That I am a school teacher by profession having taught over twenty winters in the rural Districts of N.Y. Wis. & Minn. I usually work on a farm Summers and teach winters that I have generally given good Satisfaction and that I believe I can teach as well now as I could when I was young. winter before last I taught in this state & gave good satisfaction if you should see fit to give me employment it would oblige me much as I wish to settle in that state. Please inform me the wages per month or year and the time of teaching &c. Address the undersigned at Mapleton. Blue Earth. Co. Minn. at your earliest convenience and greatly oblige yours Truly 
[[?]] Goff 
July 15th 1867 

Transcription Notes:
letter sent by Mr. Goff - on p 338, his first name was transcribed as "Bosening" - it is not clear on either page, but here it looks more like "Orange"