Yours of Dec. 20thEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is this moment recdExpanded:received I need not refer to the manner in which you accuse me it is sufficiently painful to be so misappreciated. I shall not go over the past, tis Corrected: 'tis plain that I wished you to be taught this. Why I asked you to give up the arrangement I shall not tell; but I say to you now if Dickey does not make his own arrangement, according to your request I did right to recall mine.

Your censure is perfectly unjust and I hope you will reach me nearer if you learn wisdom. I now say that I will teach you on the grounds agreed upon I had no right to make a bargin Corrected: bargain for any oneCorrected:anyone but myself, but I thought at the time it was a mutual interest.

If Dickey does not go on of his own desire I wish you to let I wi [?] Unclear or illegible ll teach you.

As you seem so little to appreciate me in the past & so often to remind me of helping me "when friends deserted me" (which I thank you for the motive) but I have ever regreted Corrected: regretted that I had not left there at once and gone to Mrs. Gale.

Now we had better do things safely as you regard all in a business light. So I wish you to send me a [?] Unclear or illegible  written obligation to the effect we agreed upon & I will see that you have the instruction agreed upon

I want it written on paper