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Washington, D.C. 23rd July 1867

Genl O.O. Howard
Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau

Sir:

Permit me the honor to state that when our late president made the first call for three-month's men, I joined the 37th N.Y.S. Vols. and have an honourable discharge for the same, since when I have been teaching in this city a mercantile mathematical and classical school, for a small stipend. I would now most respectfully ask for some employment, either as clerk, copyist, (being a practical Bookkeeper), or as a  messenger watchman, or otherwise in any capacity however humble, so as to meet the ordinary demands of nature, for teaching here is a sure nothing.