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we were invited out some and so you may well suppose, the few precious days passed away like a dream; in the mean time (i.e.) a day or two before school closed the knowledge of a vacant situation in the High School at Fitchburg came to me through Miss Woodbury whose brother is one of the committee a most desirable place since with much less of care and responsibility a dollar per week more salary is given and so near home too, but when I first got the information of it, the place was to be filled in two weeks while in one week the term here was to commence; you know I am not prone to be talking in prompt writing, so in this case, I forwarded an application with testimonials, to the chairman of the committee offering to go by the middle of April without any expectations however of being sent for for it would be a rare conjuncture indeed if in old Mass. teachers enough were not ready a polite answer came back stating that the election was made before my letter was received; from its tenor as well as the letter in relation to it from Miss W. brother, I infer I should have stood fair to obtain the situation had my application been earlier; it may open a way at some future time. During last term I was much tired with the administration in school, of our"speared head' so lose a injudicious; I felt as if I must leave, that it would be impossible to preserve good discipline and order in my department, with opposing influences 'abide' , the bad effect of which I could plainly see; my true friend, Argyle Rumsey in speaking of it said it would not do for me to stay till the school 'runs down' that though my reputation might not suffer here it would all around but things seem better this term the male department consists of but about twenty half of them steady young music teachers, fitting for college and the female department