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it is a place you think are competent to fill. The people of Middleborough are anxious to have me return, and are making an effort to raise the sum necessary to support a teacher; but I fear they will not succeed if board is as expensive this winter as last.
Are all your family of teachers back again? And are they subject to the same reminiscences of last year? My own reminiscences of life in Richmond are so pleasant that I cannot help hoping I may sometime be permitted to teach there again. Though I would not refuse to go to any other part of rebeldom.
I received a letter from Mr Backus of the Home Miss. So a few days since saying that they should have been glad to have had me return had they known in season that I wished