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Cambridgeport, Mass. Sep 5th /65
Rev. R.M. Manly
Sir
The only apology I can offer for not being more explicit in naming one authority, &c. as I should have done to an utter stranger, is that having labored for nearly a year as a teacher, under Col. Brown's direction and having met him frequently during that time, also Dr J.W. Parker - our Secretary - having met the Col. so recently with reference to schools and, as I understand, myself individually as a teacher. I did not think it necessary to be so explicit. We come under the auspices of the "American