I presume you think me very negligent in not answering your kind missiveEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., but on account of some mismanagement at the Post OfficeAs Written:P.O. I did not receive it until this evening, and hasten to reply. I am very much obliged to you for your kind consideration, and if nothing prevented more than I knew of when I wrote you, should have been very happy to accepted of your kind proposal, but with deep regret on account of circumstances over which I have no control I shall be obliged to yield the pleasure I had anticipated. Although I have an ardent desire to study and hope at some future time to be able to do so. You may think it strange after your liberal reduction that I do not avail myself of the privilege As Written: priverlage , and if I had no prospect of attending, that I should write you, and in justification of the act it may be proper to explain myself. I thought when I wrote you it was possible for me to attend if you made a reduction. My Husband had a note on the Remebec Wire Works amounting to nearly $300.00Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017. which was due the last of last month. upon that source I relied for the means to attend your school, but after writing you the firm went into insolvency and the prospect is that we shall loseAs Written:loose the whole amount. Yet I shall not yield my purpose (to study) until I have accomplished it, but when that will be is at the present unknown to me. I did not receive the Circular you sent. When does your school begin? and how many terms do you have a year? Again allow me to thank you for your kind consideration.

May God speed the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science..