
          as you suggest would suit
me well provided I [?] [here?]
especially in one where I could
be engaged during the [?]
of Dec. & I [?]. But I have
no doubt I could make arrangements
to fill such a place at
almost any season if the year.

I am well aware, that, having
been connected with this institution
nearly nineteen years, it
is making something of a sacrifice
to leave it for another,
& [?] now to be done hastily. But
a few weeks ago I had the offer of
a place in a College in Western
New York, but I did not consider
it any better than the one I hold
& therefore declined.

I believe that teachers of private
academies & boarding schools, or
rather the [?] of these, are
better paid now than any others

        