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Harrisonburg, Va Nov. 17th 1868

Gen O. Brown
Richmond, 

Dear Sir

Once more I appeal to you for aid in behalf of the colored people.

I am com'd and appointed by the Am. Miss. Ass'n. who pay me fifteen dollars a month as salary and this is all they are able to appropriate to this place. 

I write to you at their suggestion, and with the concurrence of Mr Watkins James, (of Penn.) now Agent of Freedmans Bureau at Woodstock. He has been here and knows the necessities of the people. A year ago this Autumn they built, partially, a school house, but were not able to finish it. They promised to do this, last summer during my absence but could not for lack of means, and with, seventy two scholars, I am teaching in a room without desks, where we can suspend neither maps or black board, and from which every book and slate must be removed each night. Then, too, it is very cold, and day after day I am teaching without fire. 

Fifty dollars (50.00) would enable them to finish the house.