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energies of two mentors and a tutor to attend
to 75 boys. It [illegible] be considerably more work
than I am now attempting and I fear my
health and strength might fail me. The
work of all [___ts] connected with the be-
ginning of a school is mechanicly very
great.

These and other mothers unnecessary to
trouble you with weigh with me is de-
clining this offer on many accounts so
extremely attractive to me.

His with sincere regret that I re-
fuse this kind invitation to return to the
South which I feel to be proper home.
Nothing but my attachment to [__oit]
and his nother cones have brought me so
far nother after all that has happened.
This school, havern, though in New
England is I acquire to say [illegible] it.
The whole time given to it by its head
is a noter a [illegible] New England Pur-
itanin both in Church and State.

As to the Southern University, the