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NARA 531

this year but he has not done so and now I am satisfied he did not intend to return. Before they left I said to George that I had heard it answered that Alice intended getting the two boys off, but George said there was no danger of there being troubled, they were better off here than they would be anywhere else. The boy [[?]] about ten years old is a mulattee and stays in my house and we are trying to train him up in a proper manner he keeps in the house & my wife has him to say his prairs every night, and teaching him his book. I hope you will say to Allice that she knows that she was notified that these boys were to be bound to me, and she did not appear to object and that. She had best let them alone. She has enough to do to take care of herself. If they should get these boys and there is any law in this country by which I can recover them I intend to try it cost what it may. I have had more trouble and expence with apprentices than any man in the State and it was Gen O O. Howard that first caused me to have any apprentices bound to me. I hope Genl you will advise the woman to make herself easy She could have stayed on this place if she would and done better than she is doing and have been with the boys.

Very Respectfully Yours
Danl L. Rupell