Dec. 27. 1886.
Your favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is at hand and carefully noted. I will fill out the blank and return to you as I wish to take the course of study with you as early as possible; but the terms are quite beyond my present means and I must wait, and work & study until light dawns on the financial question.
My cousin — Mrs. Dr. Saur, of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois — with whom I studied last May, taught me grandly & I have done excellent work; but I feel the need of further instruction and am strongly impressed that I ought to have the College Course of study.
I am not discouraged that I must wait awhileAs Written:a while. I shall improve the time the best I can.
Ought the student to have a knowledge of stenography in order to take full notes in the class?