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all my relations My child Sallie who was two years old when I left Williamsburg has grown to be quite a girl and goes to day school and sunday school and she can write her name and can read a little
I have no money to start to Virginia now as it took the last cent I had saved to pay for burying my husband and I do not think I can start before the middle of May
It is very hard for me to make a living here now as I cannot get any work and I think it will be very hard for me to get money enough to pay my way - I want you to enquire of some of the officers of the Freedman Bureau which would be the quickest and cheapest route for me to take.