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Commenced teaching 15th March.

Whitlock Va April 21st 1870.
Mr. R.M. Manly, Dear Sir:

I received the money ($3.00) from you very safely. I were very glad to receive the money.

I here signed the "Reports" and Receipts, according to my intelligence. The papers required me to sign or fill out all the blanks; but you only required me in your letter to sign my name.

Please fill out the blanks according to the letter written to you. Tell me yourself in your next letter how I am supposed to fill out the blanks.

Dear Mr. Manly in calamity and distress, I am oblige to write you on other letter (tho' very well satisfied with the pay you sent me) to let you know my misery. Mr. Manly you are my only hope for a friend. My mother has been sick for more than three months; and I had a very high Doctor's fee to pay. And the rent of my school room is $2.00 per month.
Sir, I did not make the last month to recover my board and rents. The place that I now board I will have to vacate the 23rd inst., and furnish my own provisions. Dear Sir, I have not any meal or meat &c &c, nor any other convenient supply for boarding my self.
Dear Sir, you may be assured that I am in deep distress. Dear Sir, please aid me as much as to send me ($10) ten dollars. Mr. R.M. Manly, please do not fail to send it, as that is all my dependence for succor in endeavoring to board myself. Sir: you can deduct the same from what you will pay me the coming months, as I expects to teach until December, 1870. I am recommended by white and colored people to be