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Pleasant Hill, Dalla Co'

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

Lieut Shorkley
Sir, On my return home, after an absence of some eight or nine weeks, I find your communication awaiting me, and hope the delay caused by my absence, will not materially interfere in the matter in regard to my receiving what is due for my services as teacher.
Although not a Northerner either by either or education, yet, I flatter myself, that I am amply competent, to teach the young freedmen for years hence My discipline and mode of instruction being deduced from Schools of a high Order, almost in my immediate neighborhood.
The parents of my pupils here well pleased with my discipline, and the rapid improvement which they made, both in morals and education, and I had remarked by several of the most highly intelligent persons in the neighborhood, both Ladies and gentlemen.
I taught only three months, and, as the expiration of that time several of them could read with facility-I have signed both the reports, and hope that, my efforts in the enlightenment of the freedmen may meet your approbation and that you will use your influence in causing me to be