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Washington, May 28th 1867.

Major General O.O. Howard
Com. Bureau R.F.&A.L.
Washington, D.C.

Dear General:
In order that you may have a fair specimen of my penmanship I submit this epistle. 

I am greatly in need of some employment other than that at which I am present engaged, and will be greatly indebted for an appointment at your hands. If nothing better presents itself I will as a matter of course accept the position in Mississippi which you offered me yesterday. The salary it is true, is hardly sufficient for a man with a family such as mine, especially as I could not think of taking my wife and children south at this season of the year, yet I should not refuse the offer in my