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Dinwiddie, C.H. Va
March 16th, 1867 

Rev. R.M. Manley
Supt Education. - etc.
Sir:
I copy below a part of a letter sent me by a poor and worthy woman in Lunenburg Co. Va. P.6. "Nonintervention", in hopes that you may be able to give her some aid. She is the widdow of a man who was conscripted into the rebel army. She has been teaching the freedmen during the past year and claims to have been for the Union during the war. She has but little education, but enough to teach the freedmen in their primary state. She says, "I says I seat myself to write you a few times & let you know how I am getting along. I have not commenced school yet, but the reason is I cannot get the books I need,

Transcription Notes:
word does not look like "poverty" - primary