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New Kent County Virginia
September 2 1869

Mr. Manley
I have taken my pen in hand to ask you if you will be so pleased to give us a school if you be so pleased for we are poor and not able to school there your children; and therefore we are suffering for the want of a school in this neighborhood and will you be so pleased to grant us a teacher for the children are growing up in ignorance for the want of a school, and their parents are not able to school them, and if you grant us a good school I can get the No of children 35 or 40 and I will see the teacher taken care of. 

WM J Langston