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Piedmont Station, Virginia
General O.O. Howard Nov 1st 1869

General
I wrote to you last month and was then informed you were Absent from the City but was requested to renew my Application for your kind Assistance. You will perhaps remember hearing Colonel SP Lee speak of Miss Warren WHo came form New Zealand to teach the Freedmen here I have taught very successfully for two years when the whole of the property was sold by my kind friends Mr and Mrs Schacklett
And there was no chance of another school here, but even if there had been my health would not allow