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Respecting the Teacher I will state the circumstances. I was conversing with one of the trustees about the school in Town, and he remarked that he had been trying to employ a teacher for some time but could not find one. Told him, if he had mentioned to me I could have furnished the school, upon which he solicited me then, to send for a man. I wrote immediately to Vermont for Irving Howard or Edward Kellogg telling them if either came not to wait to hear but come forth with thinking I might be disappointed there. I wrote to Raymond to know if he could furnish a man, requesting him to wait till he could hear from me again. It seems you have just the man but Kellogg is here ? days too late. he will start a select School as the Town School is taken up, the teacher of which is not employed but for three months, and Kellogg

[right-hand side] think some of going into Engineering in the [top upside down] spring which being the case there will be an opening for Mr. Bennett [left-hand side] to secure a permanent school here therefore say to Mr. Bennett to let the matter rest for now.