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Pamplins Station VA
Dec 23 of 69'

Rev R.M Manly
Supt Ed.
My dear Sir,
Your not dated 18th and post-marked 20th reach me last evening. I have the honor to state, I always attend to business, Square up and down On or about Nov. 30th. J.E. Loder Esq. wrote me and requested me, to send my report to him and that he would send it on. He used your name in connection with the report. I have sent him a report and Col. Carson one. Now who struck Billie Patterson? I always make out my report at the right time. I am not to blame in this matter. But in this, like in many other things, the innocent will be in fault. Here I am in close proximity to almost a thousand people beholding great wants, Moral, Mental &c, with a heart to head and hand willing to work, and you can conceive that the heart head and hand may all be quickly employed.