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we have gained from this autumn's disappointments, and that is that it is useless to attempt to establish country schools before Jan. 1st - until December, the field work keeps every one busy and then the holidays break up the month, so the first of the year seems the proper time to open school; you remember that last year we scarcely got started any where so early as that even. For the cities, the first Monday in October serves, but for the country, I say wait until the first of January. Excuse this dissertation! I am pleased to find sufficient explanation of our failure to get pupils both in Virginia and Maryland. Truly Yrs, J.F. Lowell Dec. 4. P.S. How did you like Mrs. Usher?