A Letter Written on Aug 24, 1905

Office of
Superintendent of Schools

North Dana, Mass, August 24, 1905.

Miss Lucy M. Baker,
Templeton, Mass.

My dear Miss Baker:-

Your favor came during my absence but I trust the tardy reply has not caused your inconvenience. Not having a complete list of the textbooks in German and mathematics it was necessary for me to drive over to the New Salem high school to get what you have asked for. I hope it is sufficiently accurate for your needs.

Milne's Elements of Algebra,		American Book Company.
McCurdy's Exercise Book in Algebra,		D. C. Heath & Co.
Wells's Plane and Solid Geometry,		"
"       "   Trigonometry,		"
Collar-Eysenbach: Shorter Eysenbach,		Ginn & Company.
Guerber's Marchen und Erzahlungen		D. C. Heath & Co.
Harris's German Composition,		"
Brandt's German Reader,		Allyn & Bacon.
Storm's Immensee,		D. C. Heath & Co.
Hillern's Hoher als die Kirche,		"
Heyse's L'Arrabbiata,		"

It will not be necessary for you to go to New Salem before Monday, the twenty-eighth, as the school opens on Tuesday. You will be expected to board at the dormitory in the family of the principal and to assist him to make the school a safe and studious home. While the teachers live with the students and exercise personal supervision over them, rational self-government is the end of our discipline. We expect a cordial co-operation to be manifest in all the activities of the school, in class-room or elsewhere.

May I predict for you a pleasant and successful year! You will see me on the opening day, Tuesday the twenty-ninth, unless I am called to Boston for teacher's appointments. Several vacancies in our rural schools have yet to be filled but we are looking for women of some experience for these positions.

Sincerely yours,
Louis A. Pratt.