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Post Office Department,
OFFICE OF THE
First Assistant Postmaster General,

Washington, D.C., April 10th 1871

Genl. O.O. Howard

My dear sir - 

Recurring to the subject of a teacher for a colored free school for Paris, Fauquier Co. Va. I am requested to state that for a single man Board and $21 per month is offered for a man with a family the same amount pay ($21.) and a house and firewood and that the teacher is wanted about the middle of this month.

The Compensation is rather poor, but the