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do - If you do not do that I should dismiss all my assistant Teachers at you and Sarah can do all you have to do just as well alone - yet you are making more there than I ever did, notwithstanding the Trustees said I was making money. I had to pay my assistant Teachers a regular salary - I considered Sarah's the same as a salary, for the tuition of her department amounted to more than what I had to pay any other Teacher, This made my assistant Teachers cost me about $1000, a year with the exception of the last six months of school; add to that all the incidental expenses of the school besides about $100, a year that could not possibly be collec- ted and you have the expenses of the school while I was there The collectible tuition of the school amounted to about $1100, a year - I have not [illegible] Music from the fact that you have not, but that Department came into my hands because my wife could teach it, and this is what kept us up - Had it not been for this we should have had nothing to eat drink or wear, but would have had to flee from the Town starving and as naked as an unfledged Robin - I knew this would be the case with you if you took the school into your own hands From this you can see how much I made - If I remained there I would make the Trustees enact some positive law in regard to the payment of tuition - Do not do it yourself for if any trouble should arise in regard to it at any future time the blame will all be thrown upon you - I have had experience in such things in M. In regard to charging for tuition I always charged from the time the student entered until he left - I did this because the Trustees thought this was the proper course - If I ever tried to get the Trustees to make such a [illegible] they would tell me to do it. Students frequently complained if I did not deduct the time they were absent