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perhaps have thought best to stay for the sake of filthy lucre alone, for it would have been sorely against my inclination, in fact I have been long enough in one family~. under one set of influences, not particularly elevating, improving or agreeable- should prefer some other place if I were to stay longer to teach, but to obtain a good situation as teacher here is I should judge more difficult than at the east in consequence of the apathy generally persuading the mind upon the subject of education, and from the fact that this region is thronged with persons coming 'out West' to teach who cormmence perhaps, become discouraged, and abandon the field to a successor following the same course; therefore no confidence is felt in a stranger commencing an enterprise of the sort. I should have more hope of success to stay tangent? up a school in Boston, than to strant? one on my own responsibility as some new place here;- but enough about school, I mean to give to the winds all ears on thought about them at present. I wrote to Eliab + perhaps you have seen the letter,- to come 'out' to return with me or stay the winter if I did. If he is about leaving Brown's it might be much for his advantage, to take a peep at the West, he is at an age to derive more benefit, (i.e. gain more that will be of use to him)- probably than at any other times- knowledge of our country, its resources, business enterprises, communication with minds drawn from various quarters-- a kind of knowledge and experience that might give an important complexion to his future course, in a business point of view.