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that I am no rebel, when I tell you that I am a Canadian by adoption, being Irish by birth, and have only lived in the U.S for about 2 1/2 years which time I have spent teaching in [[strikethrough]] Chi [[/strikethrough]] Ill & Penn, to either of which places I can refer you for my antecedents.
I hope you will treat said report with the cool disdain it deserves as I do. My object in moving was to curtail expenses, which I accomplished by having a reduction in my board of 4 dollars per month, and since first writing you I learn that instead of a renting from a rebel, I am only sub-renting from the Col'd lady with whom I board. With these facts before you, I have no doubt, but that you will treat me impartially as you may think I deserve, in haste
Yet respectfully
John A Melody