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My "Domestic work" is to take care of the fire in the new furnace and to succeed Jennie Smith in "waiting upon the milk man" - Of course I like my work, though it is impossible. You have been an old scholar here, at the commencement of a new year, so I need not attempt to describe to you the confusion of the three first days, when none of the new scholars know what to do, or hoe to do it, and when, as Miss Chapin said "we could not get along, were it not for the faithfulness and benevolence of the old scholars". I will merely tell you, that I am studying Euclid, Rhetoric, Ancient Geography, and Grammar, and then cease talking about myself, (and my own paltry affairs - I would like to know what you are doing, this recreation day. Perhaps you are in your school, at Uttica though I will direct this letter to your home, as I know not where you are. I hope you may enjoy health, and be able to accomplish much good, wherever Providence may open the wat for you to labor - Many thanks, dear Jennie, for your letter. I love to read it, though I sympathize with your sadness in not being permitted to labor among those neglected Indian girls - I hope we have not done wrong in remaining in the North - Indeed, I feared I could not go then and do right, for I felt unworthy to occupy so responsible a station, and I feared I should have to repress all my hatred of oppression and witness painful scenes, without the power to relieve the hearts of the enslaved - But, dear sister, "God doth all things well", and He will guide us still, if we but implore his direction - Are we his own children, redeemed by the blood of his Son, and shall we fear to trust in him? Ah, these are precious promises, in the Book of Life, to cheer our desponding hearts, in every hour of trial - If we are faithful in any station, shall we not receive an abundant reward? I cannot look around