OAK GROVE SEMINARY, VASSALIORO IE. 
30 Sept. 1901. 
Dear Collins:— 
lam taking this up as an amusement, so please excuse 
an# mistakes thattyou may find. By "this" I mean typewriting. 
Up here at Vassalboro things are going very smothly, but without 
much time for loafing. The other day I reciefed a letter from a 
lady in Sidney,Cape Breton, Canada, asking me to take the job of tu¬ 
toring her daughter in sciences etc., the pay was to be $400. with 
expenses. In some ways I should have liked the place, for which 
by the way,Fernald recommended me,but of course I cannot leave here. 
We are having some fine weather here, clear and cool. Towards the 
notthwest we can see several mountains, what ones I do not know, but 
most likely those to the west of Farmington, and the hills towards 
Bigelow. I have not done very much botanizing here and do not ex¬ 
pect to., there isn't the time for it. 
3y the way, will you please get me enough of the 
Hungarian nails for two pairs of shoes? Icannot get them here and 
want to get some shoes fixed before winter. You can send them by 
mail and I will settle the damage. Thank you for the pictures, 
mother is very much pleased with thwn. Next Saturday I plan to go 
home and can get a chance to look at them. I wonder how the goods 
that I left at Providence are getting along? I have not heared 
anything fiom them at all, taut suppose that I shall get a bill from 
the company very soon after the first of the month. 
Let me know how the classes, or asses, get along in Erowm 
this year, I am somewhat interested to see what difference the change 
