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bashful shy manner towards the other sex and nothing shows plainer that one is not accustomed to society; I believe the freedom and ease in the society of the other sex more essential to a young man, than to a young lady, nothing sits so becomingly, on even a very young man, as attentions (not particural ) and regard paid to the female sex, and certainly nothing helps them forward in the world more. Tues. eve.Nov. 2 I should think Isaac would be more likely to get a school and more likely to keep it prosperously if he should go to school a few weeks first. If he intends to persevere, and go through his studies it seems highly important that he should review his Latin & Greek and get started so as to be able to pursue it this winter while teaching. as to a suitcoat I should think he might borrow C's till he could have one made, and C. use the cloak in which he always looks well. the money here is on two bills, one of 18 and the other of 30. The 18 will be enough to pay six weeks for I and J. the 30 remain for Eliab when his time comes, Had I better get the 18 soon? I have [70?] scholars now and some provoking ones though the school in general is as pleasant as usual; i get more fatigued in body and mind than last summer or at least the school seems more tedious to me, I have half a mind to take a vacation of next term getting some one to supply my place and so return to it again next winter, but there would be some disadvantages in that, yet I do really need a longer resting than the short vacations afford. and it would be as profitable supposing I should take a school of ten or twelve weeks in the course of the summer, for what I earned I could have; here it takes just half my earnings to pay my board, and the other half is less than enough to get what the fashion, customs or even decency requires. As to the long night gowns I wonder we had not thought of them before, they are so necessary for sickness in the winter. If C. can furnish me with some money for it I will get and make up some, for I have time evenings, which I have spent almost altogether in Mrs. Walker's room he read aloud and commonly makes rather a long evening He is now reading "A new home or who"ll follow" by Mrs. Plavers a fashionable & first rate Broadway lady whose husband became proprietor of a town in Michigan and went from the city of New York to reside there, She accommodated herself to all the hardships and inconveniences of her new home to which she carried six small children, and her book is full of common sense and useful hints and interesting sketches. He has been reading memories in five large volumes of Sully , a book written about 250 years in the time of Henry [unclear] of France it is as interesting as a novel, is filled with just and discriminating ideas of human affairs, shows a great knowledge of human nature and is a strictly authentic account of a truly great man. as well as all the affairs of France and other nations at that time & an impartial view of [unclear] Mr. W. has also read aloud one of Jame's historical novel ([unclear]) so you see I read and work too; I am likely to live very retired scarcely ever going out, and seldom seeing any company here but so much the better I shall be likely to get some work done and be improving my mind all the while, If Mr. & Mrs. W. do not move away this fall, they will be likely to stay here all winter and if they do I think I shall too, there would be so much difficulty in finding a really agreeable boarding place.