38 West 59th St., New York City 
17 uct. 1908. 
Dear Collins:- 
I truly owe you an apology for not having written 
you before this, hut these first few weeks have been about 
as busy a time as I ever saw, and letter writing has had to 
wait. Now I am beginning to catch upp a little with the 
work. 
All is going on as finely as could be asked for here, and 
I have the routine of the school well in hand, it means more 
work than last year in a good many ways, tho there is no tu¬ 
toring as yet. The hard times have begun to show in the de¬ 
crease of all the extras, and the cutting off of the transfers 
in the city here has made a material reduction in the attendance 
at the school. However, I am in good health just the same, 
and the pay seems to come just the same. There has been no 
falling off in my own classes, rather an increase- in some 
of them. I have six or seven in chemistry against three last 
year. That is one of the reasons that makes the wdrk more. 
I am very sorry to hear from home that Mr. Jenckes has 
had more trouble with his eyes, I hope that by this time he 
is all over it safely, and that he has had the best of health 
during the time. It hardly seems a month ago that you-all 
were at home, time has fled rather rapidly with so much to 
do. 
As you will imagine from the account above, I have had no 
