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Peabody School, Mangohick Va Nov 18th 1869. Mr Manly. Dear Sir: I feel compelled to write you this letter: Mr Abrams requested me day before yesterday to write you about Mr Courtney. I liked that, very well, but think it was not really necessary to put blinds on the windows, though I let him go on as he thought best. He is a well meaning man, but is rather fast sometimes. I do not think there will be any more trouble, he says he will pay for them. I have just received a letter from J.M. Lynch Beaufort S.C. in which she desires me to let her take the Melodom back, but I prefer to hold her to her bargain, and keep it; not because I have the best of it, as she says, but because I need such an instrument. I have paid her $20. and will have to get, you will be so kind as to send her through Post Office Order, $15 more, and get a receipt from her for the whole. Another reason for writing is, I want you to have me a neat little house put up at the church, immediately, and pay for it out of my wages, I am perfectly willing to pay for it, for the convenience of the school, as well as myself. The neighbors are not able to do it, they say.