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Hastings, Center N.Y. Aug,24,1869.

Rev. R. M. Manly,
Potsdam N.Y.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 16 Inst was received in due time.  Your address is not given in it presume in your haste it was forgotten.  Rev R. Pierce Field Agent for the M.E. Church Society called here a few days since and said he was quite certain you would come to Potsdam as you had friends there and advised me to write you there.  Mr. Purse has written Mr. Buster of the M.E. Society for the Freedmen at Cincinnati, Ohio, asking my appointment for the coming year, and he is making