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Clover Depot
Cover. Depot. Halifax, Co. Va. 
Dec, 24, 1869

Rev. R.M. Manley Cerliss

Dear Bro:

Yours of the 22" inst is at hand I will make the house smaller of a proper size and get along with less money and get all the help I can from every source. I will use the strictest economy. I will expend 100 dollars first and if they will not finish it I will ask for another hundred. 

I can keep up a small school in a rented building. We need a box stove about 3½ feet long if you have sent a different size it will do for the church and it will do for the rented