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Brunswick County Va
May 11th 1869

Mr R.M. Manly

Dear Sir
I commenced teaching a colored school 1st of last March exspecting to get some aid from Supt Education but have failed to get any assistance up to the present time & will be compelled to dismiss my school on that account if I don't get some aid & if it is in your power to allow me anything for the rent of the house I occupied as a school house it will be a great help to me & I will be under many obligations to you for your help. All the pay I have ever got for teaching up to the present time don't amount to four dollars all of them promise to pay me twenty