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write you. If you have an opening for her, do not think of, waiting for the contemplated change here, before making the proposition  I received a letter from Miss Stell, asking as a favor to know my age! — She had made a wager with a friend, of a gold ring, against a watch, that I was not 40. I gave her my age to a day & told her if the young man did not pony up, to lay her complaint before the Bureau & to permit me to act as her attorney!

General Howard's visit & speech has done much good. I enjoyed it very much; & think had he have arrived in good season, so that we could have done matters up leisurely, he also would have been much pleased. As he expressed himself weary & hungry I fear, I hurried, things up a little too fast.

I have opened a new school this morning on