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                                                                                                                    Feb 2nd

self-supporting plants ----Another week has passed, a donation visit here in the mean time has banished quietness and order from the house, - wearied every body - I took a severe cold in the midst of it, have been most sick there two or three days:- their donation amounted to 160 dolls. 50 in money. There have been strange doings here, wrongling, unchristian feelings - Mr H has been dismissed by the church, or rather by the session - the Presbyterian church is governed by elders who with the pastor constitute the session in the hands of whom the power chiefly meets. Mr. Hopkins' friends have roused up, talk of keeping him building a new church. the result is uncertain Mrs. H. means at any rate to go on with her school another year: she has hired a new teacher for the juvenile department, inexperienced but well qualified, she has been two years a pupil at S.Hadley, can teach algebra which I cannot. A conjecture that Mrs. H. intends to do with her services only, after my term expires: I do not wish to stay unless she should be very anxious to have me, don't think I shall want to at any rate: taken in all respects I feel more in a state of servitude than ever before in my life, but the experience will be valuable to me; I do not regret it and I have been able to save more than in any year before little as the pittance is. At the morrow there was due me 130, of which up to this time I have spent $58, as we 'settled' 1st Jan. I offered to let it remain if Mrs. H would give me a note but she was unwilling to pay interest, therefore I told her I would take the money as soon as she could pay it. She intends to pay me 50 in a few days which I wish to send to Eliab to invest or some of the rest of you in some way so as to be gaining