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payment (over a year ago) to the paymaster at Covington Ky  Will you please be kind enough to give this your attention I propose to try and get the old negros just dues for him with out charge as I think he has already been swindled badly by somebody.

This is my first effort at hunting up anything of the kind and only [[??]]  the sympathy that I have for the much abused negro (although termed a rebel) I should not make this appeal to Honor

Yours respectfully
W. W. Coleman

For Daniel Monday

PS Direct to Daniel Monday
Falmouth Pendleton County Ky

[[Right margin]] Answer at once and you will confer a blessing on this old man as he is very needy.[[/Right margin]]