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exhibitions. Geo. W. Foster is going to get up a concert in about three weeks. I hardly know what to do wheather to stay at home, or go to So Hardwick and have a writing school The principal sent word out to me last week that if I would come he would get me a class. I think I shall go out this morning and see about it. Did you go to Waterbury to the teachers association the 15th and 16th of Feb. I would like to gone, but perhaps I should not have enjoyed myself as well as I did at Montpelier for I should not have found so many friends and acquaintances
Ed. Ainsworth is puting up lightning rods now in Illinois.
Give my very respects to all enquiring friends
Yours &c A. P. Town
To W. B. Stevens
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Woodbury Roxbury, Vt, Mar 9 1861
Dear Friend and School Mate Willie
I received your kind letter in due season, and was very much pleased to hear from you, and of your general good health. I have been very negligent since I received your letter, and have no excuse for not having written before, that would look at all reasonable so I will not make any. At the time I received your letter we (My scholars and myself) were engaged in getting up an exhibition for the close of school
We had two long plays one to commence with and for a closing piece The time for representation of the first was forty minutes and of the last
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fifty minutes. and the space between the two was filled with single pieces and short dialogues occupying in the whole thre hours, which I think was quite long enough; teachers in general are to apt to have to many pieces so that the audience get tired and uneasy; and it detracts from the general tenor of the exhibition in my opinion.
I would like to have had you visited my school before it finished but you would not have found a very full school towards the close for there were so many sick The general average though was thirty six. Rather a small average for fifty three scholars. To be honest about it Roxbury is a tough place and they never'll get me back there again, perhaps they don't think any more of me than I do of them, if they don't it is just as well. Miss Graves did not visit Roxbury. I was in hopes she would for I have heard so much about her that
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I longed for an introduction, but I fear we should have found some difficulty as both are a little inclined to be bashfull and it would have taken a long time to be come acquainted.
When I saw her at Montpelier I spoke of having an exhibition perhaps you recollect and she expressed a wish, that if I did she wished me to be sure and let her know of it, and she would certainly go to it, if she was in the state. but on my return to R. I recollect that I was not acquainted with her, and that it would be impossible for me to do so. If you should happen to see her. (she is attending school at Montpelier I understand) you may give her my best respects if she will accept of them. My school finished a week ago last Friday and since then I have been at home at most of the time. Last Wednesday we Mr. S. H. Foster had an exhibition at South Woodbury The Fosters are famous for school
