Your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. just receivedAs Written:recd I thank you so much for your generous offer to give me another course of instruction, there is nothing on earth I wouldAs Written:wd like better, but my chronic state of impecuniosity, I fear, will prevent my accepting it. My one ruling desire is to perfect myself in this knowledge, but my opportunities are few, and my wish to go to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts to learn more, is so great, that I am sometimes almost tempted to walk there.

You say you have forgotten what proposition you made to me about pupils. ‘Twas this. You said "Send me Christians, that are educated, and influential, for students I will not let money keep any such out of our ranks; you can tell them to that effect." So I did. Miss MorseEditorial Note: Lina Morse wouldAs Written:wd like to board & room at the college, if you couldAs Written:cd accommodate her. You will find her a very apt, and bright pupil.

I had a call from Col. Smith yesterday, I was very glad to get such direct news of you all.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson - Barnett, the authoress, who lives here, went to Boston to be treated by Mrs Newman, for nervous prostration, and was entirely cured; so I understand she is going to publish an article to that effect, to counteract Miss Alcott'sEditorial Note: One of Anna B. Newman’s patients and students was the author Louisa May Alcott, whom she treated unsuccessfully. Alcott wrote about her experience in article for the Woman’s Journal, April 18, 1885.. and so it goes, pro and con. Well, I shall send you all the pupils I can muster, but I fear they won’t As Written: wont be many. Hoping something may "turn up," that will enable me to get to Boston in Sept.