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Wetumpka, Alabama Aug 16th/65

To the Rev F.D. Williams,

Honorable Sir with due reverence I take this method of introducing myself to you as an applicant for a situation as a Teacher or even assistant. In a colored school for the colored children of Wetumpka, and I am in hopes that it will meet with your partial approbation, the time has come when that we the dark sons and daughters of Ethiopia has the privelege of Moral Mental and Intellectual improvements and it seems to be the earnest desire of the most respectable Colored Citizens of Wetumpka to the youths of of my race educated do that they may know better how to conduct themselves, capable of making better citizens than they would be if they grew up in ignorance exposed to all temptations to cover them for it is found both ancient and modern history of the World that Where the most ignorance abounds there also the most crime are to be found I know it is a difficult task to start and still harder to perform but still I hope that with perseverance, and an untiring energy we may accomplish a great deal towards the mental improvements of my race I hope that