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to abide by it. I was almost tempted to return home yesterday, as I was the recipient of a gross insult on the street. There is a Female Seminary here. Taught by a Baptist Minister, his pupils, entertained themselves yesterday by hooting after me as I passed there goes the Yankee Nigger Teacher. I treated them with silent contempt, though I was strongly tempted to reply to them, poor ignorant creatures. I pity them hoping a report will be satisfactory

I remain respectfully

Harriet W. Polhemurs
Middleburg
Loudon Co
Va.