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Dear Sister, | Dear Sister, | ||
We recieved your letter yesterday. Glad to see you are in so good spirits and getting along so well. Hope you will have health and success, and be able to do and get good in your new position. Your terms are very long. How will such a long stretch without vacation agree with you. In laying out your plans you must make calculations for this | We recieved your letter yesterday. Glad to see you are in so good spirits and getting along so well. Hope you will have health and success, and be able to do and get good in your new position. Your terms are very long. How will such a long stretch without vacation agree with you. In laying out your plans you must make calculations for this and not get used up too soon. One cannot do as much for a period long extended, as they can for a short time and then rest. How many recitations do you hear daily? | ||
As to that matter with Prof. H. as you are a newcomer and a stranger, would it not be best, if he is willing to relieve you of any responsibility, to allow him to | As to that matter with Prof. H. as you are a newcomer and a stranger, would it not be best, if he is willing to relieve you of any responsibility, to allow him to do so. Any controversy or | ||
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any position they may give you, and do the very best you can. and if there is any complaint let it come from some other quarter. There may be some things unpleasant about it, but I would hear them, and pray for more grace. It would accomplish more for you in the end. Do not be particular about your position or the | any position they may give you, and do the very best you can. and if there is any complaint let it come from some other quarter. There may be some things unpleasant about it, but I would hear them, and pray for more grace. It would accomplish more for you in the end. Do not be particular about your position or the classes you hear, you are a stranger there and sort of alone and if you do the very best you can in your circumstances they will not see you wronged. I talk plain, my dear sister, but I must say that we both feel a very great interest in you succeeding there, and can see no sort of reason why you may not if you have health | ||
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New Hampton. Oct. 10. 1857.
Dear Sister, We recieved your letter yesterday. Glad to see you are in so good spirits and getting along so well. Hope you will have health and success, and be able to do and get good in your new position. Your terms are very long. How will such a long stretch without vacation agree with you. In laying out your plans you must make calculations for this and not get used up too soon. One cannot do as much for a period long extended, as they can for a short time and then rest. How many recitations do you hear daily? As to that matter with Prof. H. as you are a newcomer and a stranger, would it not be best, if he is willing to relieve you of any responsibility, to allow him to do so. Any controversy or
in margins any position they may give you, and do the very best you can. and if there is any complaint let it come from some other quarter. There may be some things unpleasant about it, but I would hear them, and pray for more grace. It would accomplish more for you in the end. Do not be particular about your position or the classes you hear, you are a stranger there and sort of alone and if you do the very best you can in your circumstances they will not see you wronged. I talk plain, my dear sister, but I must say that we both feel a very great interest in you succeeding there, and can see no sort of reason why you may not if you have health