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                                                                                     Ann   Dec 29th 
                                                                                                  1832
                                                                                      Warwick
                       Massachusetts
                            Jan 12th                                              18 3/4
                                                Mrs. Anna M. Metcalf
                                                            Milo Me.

I want you should write whether I had better make my calculations, to steer to the east, next spring, trusting that there will be some opening for me there, both of usefulness and profit, or whether I had better try in a private school at Winchester or Troy, or go home with Dr. Taylor's niece from Wilmington, where she says I should have a probability of success--I suspect that you will think it favourable, that you do not have to read such a letter every day, this letter is not such a one as I meant to write, but excuse it- I have written in a hurry.

I wrote to Pelatiah for my school books, but said nothing about the apparus, but either through his or Caroline's mistake, he sent all the apparatus, but if I teach in this vicinity next summer I shall want it here, I sent too, for a Circassian dress to wear this winter, it cost nearly $4,50 but it is a good one, My Merino I had coloured bottle green bought some new and had it made over into a pelisse. My dress is very much warmer this winter than it was last; though the weather is much more mild.

I think there is little doubt but I can have chances to keep common School? about here next summer but the wages for the largest & most fatiguing would not exceed 1,50 a week. A Select School would be far more pleasant, and probably far more profitable; I think I had better make exertions very early in the season, to get up such a School in this region, --in Winchester; -- if these exertions fail of success, direct my course to Bangor in season to try there, --or -- if that should be inexpedient;-- soon enough to engage in a common school, in your region. The most agreeable course would be to go to Milo spend a few weeks and then engage in a private Sch. in Bangor. I should rather be there than in any other place except Boston, and I do not despair of ultimately obtaining a place there, but perhaps I had better not try the ensuing spring.

I am glad you wrote about music; - about Mr. Pratt; - if circumstances should be that I should determine to learn about them, I mean to be precise about terms. I am inclined to think I should succeed better in Bangor to teach music but there are so many things I want to learn that I do not know as I ought to devote the time to it. I mean to be governed by circumstances, and not spend much more, until I have earned something--Ann -- Aunt Conant furnished me with yarn for knit Sleeves which I find very comfortable.