I'm sitting alone to communecate Corrected: communicate with you, to reach your spiritual sense of me, & of my presence.— but I think you do not recognize me although you are thinking of me. My heart is troubled on your account; to give one a sorrow or tear to my fellow beings wounds me as much as it can them, & if that grif Corrected: grief could have been avoided. I should have given you no pain, but I have learned a lesson and perhaps some others have that was necessary for us to learn I can bear much better the wounds that are inflected Corrected: inflicted on my aching heart by the unconscoious, than I can bear to know another suffers. Sarah dear, O have no doubt but you will see this as a necessary evil ere long. It came not from any voluntary action of mine but from the necessity of the case.

Now Dickey speaks in his high mindedCorrected:high-minded tone, willing to teach you— says I 'told Sa to be guided by your letter & I should suppose she would take it up again ieCorrected:i.e. (commence the study) I wanted you and R. to make just this arrangement and now I hope the smiles of approving heaven will rest upon the undertaking. I know it will fill your soul & give you consolation and efficiency in all the exigencies of life for which you must be preparing. I could not explain to you or as I said I gladly would have done

Now Sarah if you do not go on the cause must rest with yourself for all obstacles are removed As ever your [?] Unclear or illegible