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 Do not my dear brother, trust to your good constitution but take every precaution and care of your health in regard to exposure, diet, late hours, suitable clothing &c, while you remain there.
 As to school and my continuance here, I have some forebodings that I shall not stay after next summer though though I am engaged, if I choose till next winter.  The Principal is deficient in discipline, the school I can see is getting into a bad condition; it will affect my department in it's reputation, and in my reputation, -- the two departments being so connected) -- while it renders my labours greater.  I am half inclined to stop teaching for good, and trust providence for food to eat and raiment to put on as long as I live, by some other means, -- I am not at all concerned but that I could find enough to do to employ all my time and energies.  Teaching now has become too much of a drudge to me. I think sometimes of Dickens' teacher who 'had been ground in a mill of boys',-- I cannot raise up in my mind any enthusiasm in the employment, any interest or ambition beyond that of giving satisfaction and having a conscience void of offence.  I have various cogitations sometimes think I will leave here next July at the summer vacation  go home and meantime advertise for a situation, South, where I can have more salary-- so as to lay by a few more dollars before I retire to private life!--I am enjoying the winter quite well, with Miss Woodbury for companion and plenty of books, and reading Hitchcock's Religion of Geology' now   Anne

[top upside down] what do you think Kossuth ? Of his wishes and plans? In your last you expressed doubt about remaining longer than Jan. so perhaps this will even reach you but if it do please let me know if without delay