I observed in your paper of March 5th an advertisement for an Assistant Teacher in a Public Institution &c—As I expect to be released from my engagements here in a fortnight, I should be glad to hear further of the above—if the vacancy is not already filled.I was graduated at Cambridge in ’37, previous to which date had some experience in school-keeping—and have since been constantly engaged as an instructor—for the first year, as principal of the Academy here, and for the last two, as superintendant of the classical department alone.

  I refer you to Samuel Hoar esq., Rev. R. W. Emerson, or Dr. Josiah Bartlett, of this town, or to Pre^st Quincy of Harvard University.

Yrs. respectfully
Henry D. Thoreau