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Elyria Sept 13 1853

My Dear Mother I am in some doubt whether to send this to Warwick or to direct to Bangor to await your return then. We ought to have made some definite arrangement about directing letters so as to know that one would reach you readily but as we did not I think I had best direct this to the care of Hervey Conant trusting you will get it sometime before you leave for home. I have a great deal to say to you, & do so wish I could see you; I received a letter from Isaac last week urging me most affectionately to spend the winter there, saying he would gladly pay my expenses, board, & a salary besides, if I would come. I have written to Chicago, & had a return, stating that no place is ready for me there, Miss Bright speaks discouragingly in regard to any good opening. Mr. Johnston had not returned when she wrote. I answered here that I had decided not to go to Chicago to teach, & wished nothing more to be done or said about it. Providence has appointed me another mission: it is wonderful to me how strangely, yet how surely I have been, as it were - borne along on the current of events, to be brought to a particular & special result. It seems Mrs Hopkins had a meaning in her writing, though I knew, nor thought nothing of it, - nor did she mean I should, lest it should embarrass and

[left-hand side]just as I should want to help if I could see you. I have written to Isaac and intend writing to Lucy. Do my dear Mother write to me more directly & I will write again when I should be settled. [right-hand side] deal ?corner folded down Aunt Conant, Aunt Esther & tell the friend, Maria's & cousins & friends & all.

Affectionately yours

Anna