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Anna Cummings 
Oct 11th 1867

Rev. R. M. Manly

Dear Sir: Although I need no answer to the last letter I wrote you, yet I do not despair. I have in fact had my doubts about your receiving it, and indeed of its ever leave Roxboro; I have nearly all the time since I have been here been in the habit of sending my letters to the office by Mr. Martin, and I have found on several occasions that they did not reach the office here, much less their destination. 
I returned from the north last month, and opened school monday last, have had but