I wrote you a week or two sinceEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. asking for a speedy reply, as being very important to me, that I may better perfect my plans for visiting BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts in January, If I am not to go in Jan I wish to use my means at once for other purposes, and to my immediate advantage, whereas should I go at that time I must hold the means so as to be ready, I want some information on two or three points- i.e. It is stated that your Pupils may avail themselves of a reduction in Rail RCorrected:Railroad Note: rates, you having made arrangements and provision therefor. Does that mean also for the passage to Boston as well as returning . Should one procure a return ticket, and do you send some paper or pass requisite for the purpose? Mrs Otis is too busy to write, and wishes me to ask for an immediate reply that it may reach here by the last of this week, so that she may leave Edmore for the southern part of the State until time for us to go East, we find that, should the Class commenc Corrected: commence on the first Monday of [?] Unclear or illegible  Jan we would be obliged to start from here as early as the 27th, of this month, to be there at its first sessi [?] Unclear or illegible on, Also you spoke of giving us fifty dollars reduction on account of our having to make the second trip there. Does that mean (the present rate being two hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $6,670.54 in 2024.) that we two can enter the class for— one hundred and fifty dollarsEditorial Note: $150.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,002.91 in 2024. each, I hope it does , not that any price seems too much to pay. for such a blessing, but that in order to go (this winter) I have to sacrifice in money matters, and will need to be very economical, in every direction.

I will here ask, if it should chance that I do not find myself in possession of all the means at that date, would you take my note or a check on this Bank payable in sixty days, possibly for a hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,335.27 in 2024., or seventy fiveEditorial Note: $75.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $2,501.45 in 2024., and yet I may not need to do so at all and may have it duly, but if I should need to, I would like to know before handCorrected:beforehand. Either is negotiable here or wherever I am known, I greatly desire to settle all business matters before I go, and so may need to use the money, or it could be placed in the bank here and while I was gone, so that a check could be paid in thirty days.

Looking for an early reply, which I trust may be convenient for you, and wishing you every needed blessing

I am