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Bangor July 1st 1845.
Dear Brother Isaac
It being the memorable "first of July," I consequently commence an epistle to you. You already know of my being in Bangor & of my occupation here, but have not probably been apprised that I passed through much tribulation ere I was finally established in my present situation. I wrote you a few words from Mr. Pomroy's Wednes. 4th. of June. The next morning I went in the stage with Ann & Mary Barnes as far as Mr. Dudley's to whom Mr. Walker sent a note by me informing the District that he had engaged me to teach the school. I left my trunk there as I came down the day before so they knew I was coming, & you boarded there. I felt almost acquainted with them; but instead of treating me like a friend, or even with the civility due to a stranger, they recieved me with all imaginable coldness, said Mr. Dudley had nothing to do with the business, that Mr. Sherburne was Agent & they believed he had engaged a teacher. They also told me, as of they did not know there was any such thing as feelings, that the District was very much dissatisfied with you, that you had no kind of order in school. that the scholars played chequers, spit on the master in school etc. etc. Mr. Dudley concluded by saying that you was a very clever fellow but that the would advise you never to attempt to keep school again if you could'nt keep the scholars from running over you so. Well I soon made the best of my way over to Mr. Sherburne's , alias "Uncle Sam's." He was gone to the city, so I waited in suspense till noon, when he came home. He had not engaged a teacher, but was awful wrathy at the Com. for sending a teacher when the school-house was all torn to pieces etc. Said the Com. took all the business in their own hands & then did'nt do it. People were also dissatisfied with my wages, as they said it was not customary to give