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Portsmouth Va
June 24. 67

Rev R. M. Manly
Super of School for Freedman Bureau

Dear Brothers

You are not more surprised than I am at the collision at Burksville.

The first I knew of the place was by a letter written by Capt Connolly to the pastors of the African Bapt Church in Richmond wishing him to come and take charge of the house, congregation I learned either from that letter or on my first visit there that that Mr Murphy had paid a teacher, M Wood

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Name at end of this page is unclear, but seems to be Wood, based on name on next page