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New Market Shenandoah Co. Jan 20th

Mr. R.M. Manly

Dear Sir

You favor of the 15th has reached me. I was not aware this friends in the North had made application in my behalf, for assitance in providing a school house & I feel grateful to them and to you for your prompt attention to their prayers.
I scarcely dare hope for assistance from the Bureau in the construction of my school house - as the building I am trying to rent is on a lot of my own & cannot "be permanently secured to Freedman"