I have written to your Sister today and have proposed a visit to her if she will say what day will be most convenient for her to receive me. I have a place in my head which I think would be of mutual benefit to us both & which I have proposedp2for her consideration
I have always wished to have my poor afflicted boy entirely under my own care. and I think if I could get a small cottage near your brothers at Lendelede I would go & live there & by way of companionship give your Sister a home I have toldp3her at present I could not give her a salary but that we could take some needle work in do it together & she should have all the profits for her dress &c James is not so bad to manage now & my own stock of patience has improved my only desire now being to work for God & do my duty I will have enough with care to keep the trio[1] I thinkp4we will get on very well she likes me & I like her & your sister minds pretty well what I advise her she has made me her confidante all along & I have always given her good advice though I never breathed it to another Soul so any thing you say to me you may be sure I will treat as sacred & surely you may trust*p1my discretion I would do any thing for you to serve you in the love of Our Blessed Lord. So think over this & let me know when I may see you on the subject of my letter
yours in Christ