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Aug 5 1888
Powhatan
Balesville P off Powhatan Co Va
Gen Stoanman
Sir I seat myself to write you a few times to state 
my awful case to you I have bin living wigth ZMr. J.D.Noble ever since Christmast & we have bin together ever since 1864 & have never had one
cross word since we  first well together so I love him as much as any women living love man I have nowhere to go in the world to go I am out of doors & 
I cannot give him up until death I will certainly [[Strikethrough]] have to be badly [[/Strikethrough]] have to be punished to death before I can give him up because it will sertainly kill me Dead if I am taken from him I would like to know why other white men could have a col women & Mr J noble canot for I am sertainly much beter than some I now that has bin living together for some time I have one Little Girl by Mr. Noble & she is going on thre years old & at this time will not be able to do anything until next
January & I am to be throwed off in this condition it is hard he Does not want to Give. me up so please do something for me I have nobody to help me but him I am out of Doors & in a bad condition I have no one in the world to help be poor me is now in the pines writing this letter to you so please help me I am afrid to go to the House where he is my mogther has a large family & can hardly make out to live & I am disable to work their is nine in family & my mother is a sickly woman & none of her children is large enought to work but one & he is hired out for three Dollar a month & my step father those air all they have do any thing & I am in the condition that I cannot work my health will not justify my doing any thing