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Monmouth Ills Oct. 8th 1868. 
Rev. R.D. Harper

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

Dear Sir, 
I learn from my wife who is a sister of Rev. M.M. & Harry Brown that you are Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Alabama. 
That being the case I wish to address you in relation to school and church matter. 
I am a licensed preacher a graduate of the Theological Seminary of the North West (O.S.) located at Chicago. 
I am now under the care of the Presbytery of Peoria (O.S.) and am laboring as Bible agent in this county (Warren). My wife has spent four years teaching the Freedmen. I also spent one vacation among them at Memphis during the war. 
She is much attached to them and wishes to be back among them. I like them very well and would like to be laboring among them again for I am sure the work is the Lord's. I never felt happier than when laboring for this down trodden race. God's Spirit was with me then giving