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On Feb 1 cause(?) my invitation to return for next
year. Miss S "made one stipulation: that
I do not teach by analogy next year: that
the class be not given such [illegible] as the
individual [greater than] the whoever [greater than] [illegible] of [illegible]
to send. The salary was to be less, $100: in
[illegible] of the present condition of the school.

I replied announcing my intention to depart,
and explaining at length my theory of
[] the work I haveto do. At the
same time I wrote the Bishop, saying
goodbye. Miss S replied, regretting & saying
she would not act immediately, hoping for
a change of mind.

I was in a state of mind. I had thrown
away a good salary. Perhaps I should
never have as good again. I had no
prospect even of a living, since Miss
Wriner(?) had not written. Perhaps after