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Wednes Morn, 4th own, but bought with a price, If I improve them enough, there will be means of improvement to the unclear and character in a more extended kiknowledge of my country and my fellows. I received a letter - through Mrs. Pomroy from the Com. for selecting teachers, inviting me to come, & requesting me to spend a fortnight here before the course is finished (i.e., instructions &c. given to the class preparing to go West this fall), I started from Bangor, it will be a fortnight tomorrow, Almeda came down and spent the last day with me and Charles too, Lucy spent two or three days at Mr. Shepherd's helping me & I spent previously a week with her I could not have time to go to Milo to my great regret. I spent a day & half in Boston, arrived here Sat. eve 10 o clock. I was directed to a large building on the outskirts of the city, in a wing of which a school is kept for orphan boys, & therefore called the Orphan Asylum. now used for the accommodation of the class and their teacher, containing a regular schoolroom with desks, blackboard, maps, immense chambers for lodging, great windows 24 panes - There are 22 young ladies here half of them quite young, - from all the N.E. States, from N. York one from Virginia. this last is a perfect specimen of a southern lady, the daughter of a baptist clergyman in Fredericksburg warm hearted, impetuous; frank & open in manners, perfectly self-possessed, used to society, with the broadest southern accent.