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0760

Richmond Station Va, 

General, O, O Howard 
October 7 1869 

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

General
I trust your well known, kindness will induce you to pardon my troubling you in this case you have perhaps heard Colonel Perry Lee, speaks of Miss Warren who came from New Zealand to teach the Freedmen, Taught here at Peidmont very successfully for two years., up to last June when the property on which I held my School was sold by Mr Shacktell, and Schaalenden but even had it not been sold I could no longer teach a large school, I have overtasked my strength too much, having been on Mission Work more than 10 years I now wish to get Home to my