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Buffalo 17th, 48 Dear brother Your letter dated the very day I sent a letter to you, came duly to hand and as you may well imagine was very welcome. I had also the pleasure of reading a letter from you to the committee for which I thank you very much; it was very timely, and a very happy thought in you to do it: I presume it was of essential benefit to me. I am now at one of the traveller's (sic) meeting places, the eastern city of the east - the point between the east and the great West. I am bound for Racine, in Racine Co. on the western shore of lake Michigan in Wisconsin: - it is a city of some six or eight thousand inhabitants - I am going go the house of the Presbyterian minister, whose wife has a school for young ladies, - she applied to the 'Board' for a teacher to assist her and ultimately to take the whole charge: I am to board in their family and receive 150, per year clear of all expense; two other places were mentioned to me both in Wis. but they consider Racine the most important point, because it is a flourishing place and the Catholics are trying to gain influence in schools, and they want to make a stand against them. It will be an entirely new situation for me