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Anna to Lucy Westfield Dec. 3 / 51 I intended to answer your letter at once my dear sister so as to obtain another from you the sooner - thought certainly I should do so, when vacation relieved me for a few days from incessant labour as well as care, but taking a notion to write to the folks in general at Milo as a sort of thanksgiving call, besides a letter long due to cousin Lucy Williams, the time somehow all slipped away I find myself in the full tide of school business again but not quite so burdened with duties pressing close upon each other as last term. I will find time to answer your letters with a good degree of promptness and I hope you will find it in your heard (as I know you will) and also be able in respect to health, convenience, to write to me often. Your plan I like well, can think of but one improvement, the bedroom below is I suppose to be your 'boudoir': would it not be convenient to have it entered by more than one door (i.e. wither from the kitchen or front hall? The new term has commenced prosperously: forty five young ladies and so many young young men, you have I suppose received a 'Westfield Transcript containing a 'puff' for the school: I have this term eight beginners in French (which is getting quite fashionable here though scarcely known before I came) besides an advanced class of six or seven, (including a young lady from the famous Pittsfield school, reading Telemaque.