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that will best aid me in my work and at the same time be in reach of my purse! I cannot afford just now to spend more than sixty or seventy dollars for books and microscope.

I shall regard it as a great [?] if you will give me the information I have asked. It was very foolish of me to leave Lincoln last summer without it but I was so homesick then that I could not stay longer. I may be with you again next summer if you will consent to take me as a pupil.

Very respectfully,
Ida [Clendermin?]
Columbia,
Mo.