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Fairfields Feb 1870

Mr R. M. Manly

Dear Sir

Will you please send me some blank reports, and receipts. I have but one left. And if it would not be too much trouble, would you please seal the next receipt from the "Peabody" with Sealing Wax. The people here have a great failing, in opening and reading my letters, some of which I never receive. The last from you did not reach me until Jan 25th, and had gone through a good many hands in that time. I am fully prepared to appreciate, good P.O. arrangements, living 12 miles from one, and