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on considering I came to the resolution to risk getting any pay and try what I could do with them here I received my transportation papers and came here last Friday I find there is need of help to enable us to get up a schoolhouse and buy a piece of land and having heard of your own benevolent character in the far off Island from which I came, I have ventured to ask your assistance in this undertaking if you can give me any.
I was very disapointed in not seeing you when I came through Washington I greatly wished to have that pleasure but got in at 11 at night and had to start again 5 in the morning to get to alexandria, I should feel