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Dear Mother,

Sam'l will tell you the Telegraph proposition that has come to me requiring immediate answers and action if I accept, I feel very reluctant to go right away again when I meant to have the good long winter at least with you & Joseph, but the opportunity as far as I can judge, seems a very favorable one, - circumstances much more inviting, than to go next spring or fall, to Minnesota upon uncertainties there be at all the trouble of setting up a school on my own responsibility, At Westfield, there is a gentleman at the head of the Academy which would doubtless relieve me in respect to Algebra - it would not be going entirely among strangers, they have some knowledge of me as having been with Mrs. Hopkins five years: 'in short' it seems as if it would not be right to decline a chance opportunity so desirable which Providence has brought to me. The journey