I have changed my quarters, mainly for the reason that Mr. Rumsey's is too far from the Academy. I run in there almost every day regard them as the best friends I have here. Argyle is slowly improving in health but still has a cough, has been advised by his physician to spend next winter in a more mild and equable climate, he intends to start for Newark on business in a week or two to stay some weeks but their lawsuit with Waters about their water privilege comes on in Jan. and he thinks he must be here then, I fear not without some danger to his lungs from the rough lake winds and variable weather he has been very near consumption if he is not now tending to it.
I do not know whether I have mentioned to you that I wrote last spring by the request of the Trustees, to a young lady of Fitchburg Mass. to take the Juvenile department of the Academy. Her name is Maria M. Woodbury; She went West at the time I did taught at Milwaukee a year then returned; we exchanged visits the first summer I was at Racine. She is a girl of fine sound sense, delicacy of feeling appreciates 'matters and things' and is pious: she will be a true friend to me I trust and that is the blessing & peculiarly need here, we board together at Ms. Allis' on Clinton Dr. Have for our use a pretty front chamber with those windows looking on a pleasant, quiet, shaded street for our sitting room, with a small sleeping room, opening out of it, making, you perceive, 'a suite of rooms'.
On a little centre table under the glass, lie (showing to advantage on the blue and orange table cover, several pretty books, daguerreotypes of three of my brother (Eliab brought me his, taken by Charles Metcalf) my wash box, &c, and on one side are some small neat hanging bookshelves giving the room quite a cosy appearance. There are eight boarders in the family; we keep our own room, find our own fuel and lights, read to each other evenings, have read about half of "Bards of the Bible; and like it. Affec'ly Sister Anna.