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Wythe Co Va July the 12 1869

General Sir I hav the honor to Report the Statement of the school and the necsitys of the House it neads A Cover it leaks when ever it rains and Destroys our Books I wish to know wether you will Pleas to aid us for we are Destitute 
James K Patison said that he had receved A letter from you and he said the unly way for me to Recover any thing was to make A report in my own name and my own hand we have no perection and no aid the Rebble did help us a while but now they sia go to the Dam yankey you voted for me to be disfranchised now go I have no use for you A Radical Can not stay in my house over night they wors now then they