Now if you should presume to let me come, where can I live? Can our industry and economy clothe us for the year? Can I keep a cow? How can I be supplied with fire in that _dear place?_ How can I _pay my school bills?_ How can I find all the necessary requisites for my children to advance in learning? If I should wish to leave in two or three or five years, could I and mine, if I paid my way whilst there? If you should let me come, and I _think best to go, how shall I get there?_ What would be my _best and cheapest route?_
How should I proceed with what I have here, sell all off or bring a part? I have three beds and bedding, one cow and ordinary things enough to keep house. My children are all called tolerable scholars. My daughter is the youngest; _the neighbors call her an interesting child._ I have no pretensions to make; my only object is to _enjoy the good of the society_ and have my children _educated and accomplished._
Am I to send my boys off to work alone, or will they have a _kind person_ to say, "_Come boys_," and _relieve me from the heavy task of bringing up my boys_ with nothing to _do it with?_
If your religion has a name I should like well enough to know it; if not, and the substance is love to God and good-will to men, my mind is well enough satisfied. I have reflected on this subject ever since I read the article alluded to, and now I want you to write me _every particular;_ then if you and I think best, in the spring I will come to you. We are none of us what may be called weakly. I am forty-six years old; able to do as much every day as to spin what is called a day's work--not that I expect you spin much there, only that is the amount of my strength as it now holds out.
I should wish to seek _intelligence_, as you must know 1 lack greatly, and I _cannot endure the thought_ my children must lack as greatly, whilst multitudes are going so far in advance, no better qualified by nature than they. I want you to _send me quite a number of names of your leading characters_. If it should seem strange to you that I make the demand, I will explain it to you when I get there. I want you to answer _every item_ of this letter and as much more as _can have any bearing on my mind_, either way, whether you accept this letter _kindly or not_. I want you to write an answer without delay! Are there meetings for _us to attend?_ Do you have singing schools?