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Victoria, Texas, April 20th/.70.

Rev. Joseph Welch

Dear Sir
I have the honor to petition to you for assistance, for myself and assistant teacher are in distress, for the house I had rented is sold, and now I have no house to teach in, and am compelled to stop teaching for the want of a room to teach in.
 
I think, Sir: that I have been badly mistreated by the Bureau, by giving Mrs. R. Trussell the privilege of the School House, instead of myself, but nevertheless, the day will come I hope, that a man that has been true in his principles will receive justice. 

I suppose she reports to your honor monthly, as I do, and you