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last term but I think I stand a little better
in my class, that is to say I am nearer
the head. Why it is I know not for
I have studied even harder & I do not
think the lessons are any harder.

I shall begin to look for father soon.
I called to see Mrs Peirce the other day.
She seems very friendly indeed and
wants to have me bring father there
when he comes to Andover to which
I replied that I had no doubt but
that he would be very glad so to do

My money is nearly all expended and
as next week I have got to purchase some
new books I shall need some more "soon"
My expenses have been on the decrease every
term since I have been in Andover but
this term I am rather afraid that they will
increase from several causes one of them
being that it is the longest term in the
year. How does [Bas?] progress in her
studies of "the world as it is" and of
Natural History since her brother who
used to preserve her from so many
abuses has left home? Tell Sarah I want
very much to hear from her and to have
her send some of those Institutes [illegible]
one copy of which she was to appropriate