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P. S. Dear Bro. Manly, I fear [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] neither the foregoing nor a copy of it, has ever been sent to you. I find it in a package left by Dr. B. who is now absent in California. Please do all you can for us in Portsmouth. Miss Julia Mr. Bartlett will be absent for vacation. So please correspond with Rev. E. I. Corprew of Portsmouth, the ablest colored minister there O judge, & the [[?]] of our schools.

Yours most truly
James B. Simmons
Room 12 No. 89 Park Row N. York
July 2 1869