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Sister Anne Racine Wisconsin

Aug. 14. 1850

Racine Aug. 14th 1850. Dear brother Isaac

A long due and long meditated letter to you I have at last commenced though I have nothing to write of much interest or importance;  the life of a teacher is a monotonous one,the record of one week is the history of the next.  the same round of duties, labours, petty vexations and enjoyments too of the grateful relief from the cares of school, of the pleasant summer, evening and cool bright mornings.  

I have never experienced such a long succession of hot, oppressively , hot weather as this summer, The Thermometer has ranged from 80 to 96 in the shade, most of the time during the last six weeks; and I in school plodding through from day to day as I can, the whole change devolves on me this term, small and large in the same room which makes it more laborious. Mrs. H. was intending to go 'East' a month ago but Miss A. the agreeable housekeeper of whom I have spoken in some of my letters, has been confined to her bed the last six weeks; she will not probably recover. My experience in relation to her has given me a lesson on the evil danger of indulging strong prejudices, lest all they acquire such influences as to blight all the better feelings. How easy for the mind to become the slave to a rueling passion as strongly masked trait of character!

Newbury, Newport, Goffstown Sept 10, 1850 [left side] Have I directed this letter right, or should I have put on Civil or Chief Engineer etc. etc?