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accommodate us, as we have been used to.  You will please let me know [[strikethrough]] what [[/strikethrough]] whether the Government can supply the means for both of us or not.

Yours truly
Octavia R. Moss.

P.S.  I did no expect any pay for the rent after my school closed.  I shall open again the first of February.  The room that I teach in will accommodate 35 scholars.  There are children enough in the neighborhood for both of us to teach 30 apiece, if you can supply the means.  The colored people are so poor in this section that a great many of them can scarcely get breads to eat.
Octavia R. Moss.