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.
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