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June 20th 1869 Mr Manly Dear Sir My house has been in the service of the Freedmans bureau & occupied as a school house for nearly two years, but I am not able to make a report for last month, because my teacher left to go to Washington for a short time, and promised to return or send another teacher in his place, but up to this time he is absent and has writen to me saying that he would not return, please send us a Teacher, a good sensible man we can give him from twenty