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Tuscaloosa, Ala.
May 22, "67

Mr. C.W. Buckley;
Montgomery Ala.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[\stamp]]

Dear Sir:
As you requested me to do so, I write to inform you of my safe arrival here, and that I am nicely established in school as Mr. Hart's assistant, and find myself quite pleasantly situated.
But, Mr. Buckley, living is so very expensive here that I think I cannot remain without some advance of my salary, at least to sixty dollars a month.  Board here is thirty five dollars a month exclusive of washing; and this you see leaves but a small