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Racine Sept extra extra extra /50 Dear Sister Lucy For two good, most interesting and most welcome letters I am much obliged. I was mediating an answer to yours of July 4th when your last arrived. I must not attempt an answer now to either in due form, for I have decided to return this fall, am hasting my arrangements to start as soon as possible - hope to converse with you face to face in the course of a few weeks. Circumstances in Providence have lately occurred to make my way plain, and I am very happy in the anticipation of seeing you all soon and in giving up teaching for a time at least. Mrs. H. has all along talks of wishing me to stay, if I would consent to take charge of the juvenile department in connection with Classes in French Drawing while she would process a married lady who has been so engaged in the school, to come in for an hour a day to teach Algebra, but last week a teacher from a somewhat famous Institution at Pittsfield Ms.- came along offered her services professing to be competent to instruct in every branch, so Mrs. H. thought it would be more for head advantage, give the school greater celebrity to employ her, and the lady is introduced at once into the family staying here with me during Mrs. H's absence. So it is decided without any trouble on my part. Had Mrs. H. wished me to stay another year, I should

[left side of letter] as much or more than I probably should have done there, gained something in knowledge and experience besides the qualification of seeing a very little of the West. Aff my Sister Ann