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Amherst C.H. Va.
Jan the 4 1870

Mr. R.M. Manley,
Sir

I was much surprised at the receptionof you letter, and its contents.  I do not wish to tax your patience with a long list of woman's troubles but never the less I will give you a few outlines of my condition. In the first place, some time last February the Philadelphia Aid Society sent me a bill of books without request, consequenty I thought the books were to be given away to the pupils and I distributed them in my school  Some two months after I received order to sell