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King Wm Court House Va.
Sept 4th 1868

Rev. R.M. Manley.
Supt of Education.

Dear Sir,

Yours of the 2nd just received. There is no dependence to be placed in mails here. I have since my last note to you been to "Cat Tail" & found out all I could about board for a teacher. There is no white Family within five miles of there where I would like to see a northern lady board. There is a house which can be rented for $5.00 per month within 300 yards of "Cat Tail". It is a neat small House. Has a basement. dry & neat. a parlor & bed Room on first floor & a single bed Room nearly the whole size of the House up stairs. The yard is dry grassed down & full of trees. Wallace Roane the Colored Minister at "Cat Tail" rents the Farm & Kitchen a seperate building. & would do all in his