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positions, and urged by necessity owing to the peculiarity of my situation to ask some place whereby to earn a support for a large family of motherless children - I have been induced thus to address you I will simply state that I can fulfill all of the requirements of the Law relative to Political Status &c - and although having been a Practitioner of Medicine since 1847 - principally among Colored Persons - both as slaves and Freedmen, I feel that I could fill satisfactorily any other position than that of Physician or Surgeon, should I not receive such office under the Government. Being unable to visit you personally on account of absence from