To-morrow I return to Boston
and spend four or five days, and then go to Franklin, where I spend
the rest of my vacation.
"I found the folks all well on my coming to Boston, and as to my new
brother, James, he has nothing to distinguish him from forty other
babies, except a very large pair of blue eyes and an uncommonly fair
complexion, a thing which is of no sort of use or advantage to a man
or boy.
"I am thinking very seriously of remaining in Groton and taking care
of the female school, and at the same time being of assistance and
company for George. On some accounts it would not be so pleasant as
returning to Hartford, for I should be among strangers. Nothing upon
this point can be definitely decided till I have returned to Boston,
and talked to papa and Catherine."
Evidently papa and Catherine did not approve of the Groton plan, for
in February of the following winter Harriet writes from Hartford to
Edward, who is at this time with his father in Boston:---
"My situation this winter (1829) is in many respects pleasant. I room
with three other teachers, Miss Fisher, Miss Mary Dutton, and Miss
Brigham. Ann Fisher you know. Miss Dutton is about twenty, has a fine
mathematical mind, and has gone as far into that science perhaps as
most students at college. She is also, as I am told, quite learned in
the languages. . . . Miss Brigham is somewhat older: is possessed of
a fine mind and most unconquerable energy and perseverance of
character.
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