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Buckingham C.H. Dec. 7th 1869 Mr. R.M. Manly Dear Sir, Your letter came duly to hand & was received by me. The money I believe is safe I beleive that I will get it again. I paid it over to Mr. Ceasar Perkins. I am completely out of the Peabody, receipts. I thought that I told you in my letter to you. I shall want 30 spelling books 5 Geographys 5 Arithmetics: to reckly after Christmas, America spelling book: made by Noah Webster. Appleton mathematics series. Primary Arithmetics. I want to know what they will cost. I am not able to pay much for them the people cant pay much. Yours truly A.W. Childs
Transcription Notes:
Noah Webster wrote "the American spelling book", which should be the one referred to here but I can only read America spelling book