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Roanoke Bridge Oct 22nd 1869
Rev R M Manly
Richmond Va
Sir,
I rec'd the blanks this morning.  Of course, I had never sent you any reports for you had never sent blanks or said that a report was necessary if you had They would have been sent promptly.

The negros in this neighborhood say they are too poor to pay me any Thing but are very anxious to send their children to school and as you promised to try to give me more than the rent I have Taken a school - never less than 28 or 9-