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Seguin July 19th 9.

Very Rev. Jos. Welch Supt.

I would make a suggestion in the Simplicity of diction in respect to my school in this village. Am very much afraid, that I shall have to change the nature of things in this District. Scholars are all absentees in paying tuition, telling payments will come forward in Cotton Season.

Now to be candid in respect to those questions, is somewhat difficult. Boarding in [[cood?]] equals about Eleven Dollars. Salary covers the same very near, but clothing must have a quotient, in order to supply the ellipsis.

Now my Rev'd Friend, I pay a dollar or one & one half towards rent - do this each month so as to preserve harmony throughout. Parents of Scholars insist, that my continuance must be permanent. I hope you will confer a little more luster on my interrogation, as I am very downcast at present. It will be remembered that St. Paul, after he put Timothy in charge of the church at Ephesus, as soon as circumstances would permit, addressed him a charge. In like manner, on arriving at Ephesus, he wrote Titus an Epistle relative to his duties. First allusion that is made to him is by St. Paul in Galatians [[4?]].1.3. He accompanied the Apostle on his third visit to Jerusalem, and formed part of the deportation from the brethren at Antioch to the Mother church on the Subject of circumcision. After an interval of ten years Titus is again heard of at Crete. Titus is supposed to have been a Greek. 

Transcription Notes:
11-05-2020: 2 undeciphered words. As with previous letters, Mr. Ames makes SEVERAL religious references. Hoping transcribers with knowledge of these references will have better luck at deciphering the words. 11/7/2020: It may have something to do with the passage mentioned in the Epistle to the Galatians, but it looks like it says Galatians 11:1:3, which doesn't exist, unless I am reading it wrong