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13 Pomeworth Street, Stoneham
April 10, 1931

Dear Folks,

I was ever so glad to get your letter the other day. I was a little anxious to know how you got over your colds, for they are hard to shake this year. I guess by what you say that you have not got rid of yours entirely. I think that emulsion or cod liver oil is the best thing to take to build up resistance against the infection.

I taught in Winchester six days, and was played out and disgusted with myself and all the children. They imps of Satan inhabit the juvenile breast, I am fully convinced; yet I like the villains; but I do not want to teach them. Mr. Quinn, the superintendent called up Sunday night following my last Friday there, and wanted me to go on during the next week; but I had gone my limit. Who they got, or how they got along I have not heard; nor have I received my money. Payments seem to be slow on all sides. I wrote McCoy a very plain letter but have not even heard from him, even though I suggested that the amount of his bill was exactly that of the one I owed the dentist, whom I should like to pay the next Friday. The poor dentist would still be waiting had I depended upon his paying what he owed me; White did manage to send $15.00 on account. I think that I shall either write or go in and see Dean Melvin about them, if they don't pay up soon. I don't believe in talking about such matters to strangers; but if they can't be decent about the matter I think that the university authorities ought to know the kind of men they are employing.

Another one of their instructors, and one of their graduates, is trying to get a master's degree at Boston University. I guess that his subject matter may have been all right; but apparently his English was not passable. White recommended me to fix up his thesis. When I found out how matters stood, I said that I thought that there was a matter of ethics involved, and that I did not have the time, anyway. I think that the idea of my rewriting his thesis in order to have his English passable seemed allowable to him. I almost felt like sending word to the college to be on the lookout for him. I hope that they are clever enough to try him out themselves, and not rely entirely on the thesis; for I suppose that he will try to get some one else to do it for him, in spite of the fact that I advised him to get an extension of time and do the thing himself.

I think that I wrote you and Elizabeth has her baby. I should like to go up and see her. She wrote some time ago and invited me to come, and stay as long as I cared to. She wrote that she had two extra rooms. From what both she and Florence wrote, I guess she has a good home. It overlooks Ossipee Lake too, I believe.

I got a letter from Lula, my sister-in-law, you remember, She began by saying that she and her mother were so glad to hear from me; and then a little later, she told me of her mother's death last February 6. It gave me a queer feeling to have the two come in the same letter. I wrote and offered to come up and help a little, but she is a brave little thing. She thinks that she can get along without having me. She says that the neighbors are kind, that she has two girls helping her with the exchange during the day, that she has managed to sell at private sale all the furniture that she wished to dispose of with the exception of her piano and one ather [[other]] piece, a chair, i [[I]] believe; and she thinks that she may have a buyer for the

Transcription Notes:
after "and then a little later," the word she is mispelled as "ahe", it is fixed in the transcription. Also it doesn't have "[]" around it like other spelling errors in the transcription.