the Thoreau Log.
12 April 1838. Cambridge, Mass.

Josiah Quincy writes to Thoreau about a possible teaching position:

  Sir,—

  The School is at Alexandria; the students are said to be young men well advanced in ye knowledge of ye Latin and Greek classics; the requisitions are, qualification and a person who has had experience in school keeping. Salary $600. a year, besides washing and Board; duties to be entered on ye 5th or 6th of May. If you choose to apply, I will write as soon as I am informed of it. State to me your experience in school keeping.

Yours,
Josiah Quincy

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 25-26; MS, The Raymond Adams collection in The Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Lincoln, Mass.; III.98.n.)

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