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for a home would be quite extensive & varied with a reasonable chance for success in any thing for which I am fitted. I could teach & have no doubt were I well I could build up a good school in some pleasant place. I could also enter the ministry were my health suitable with a reasonable prosper of success & I should like it very much. I could also were I able enter business or act as Book Keeper in some one large towns at a fair salary. You know I enjoy intellectual pursuits & should be very happy if I could earn my home comforts for my family in that way & gratify my ambition to act upon the minds of others & lead them up & on to higher life. But dear Wife it seems to me that my poor health closes all the above mentioned kinds of business & pursuits to me. I had thought when I went down to our farm that if my health became better I could devote some