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No. 1
Taylor Plantation
Parish of Assumption
August 4th, 1865.

E.M. Wheelock
Lieut & Secty Bd. of 
Education Freedmen
Dept. Gulf

Sir
I have the honor to inform you of the fact that Mr. M.J. Kenyon, Your Agent for Assumption, and part of Ascension Parishes, is engaged at least part of his time, farming; he having leased the Truxillo Plantation , in this Parish, adjoining the Wilson Place; he employs eight hands, and is said to be making a good thing of it. I believe he cannot attend to all the work needed to be done by an Agent in his territory, and attend at the same time to his Plantation, and would for the sake of the cause of Education hope to see him drop one, calling or the other.

Very Respectfully &c
Dr. T.M. Bentley