This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
I thought I would be willing to engage in teaching school for them or do any thing else in my power to better their condition. I therefore thought I would write to thee to know the conditions, & whither I can be imploid [[employed]] or not. I am a native of Ohio, but my home is in this country. I have resided in Wayne Ga for the last or most of the last 15 years. I am a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers. Thou will greatly oblige me by answering this as early as possible. I am very respectfully Thy Friend Lydia Cox. P.S. Please direct to Goldsboro Wayne Co N.C.