It is with difficulty I am able to collect the members of our School together for Business. Holidays have become habitual, & they seem unwilling to give them over. As the Negroes have this Day for a Holiday our Schollars thinks it hard that they should be compell'd to attend to Business. I summon them together however, and shall keep them to constant Study until the time of my setting away. Miss Priscilla this morning told me, of Miss Panton, a moving story: Last Sunday Evening after we left there She took a lonely Walk, & being asked why She chose to walk without a companion, she answered that she was thinking of Home & of her Friends, & indulging her fond Grief on account of their absence!--Such a feeling as this I have not been a stranger to, I therefore Sympathize with the poor young Girl. The Day agreeably pleasant--Towards Evening Miss _Corbin_ came over to pay us a visit After School I waited on the Ladies in the Dining-Room the conversation was on Fashions, which instantly introduced the oddity of Miss _Panton_. But Miss Corbin with a _Sneer_, & with ill-nature enough, swore She would not think of imitating such a thing as her!--O!--Tantam Animis cælestibus Iræ?--I spent the Evening in cheerful chat with the Ladies. I think I have not had a more sociable & unconstrained feeling since I left Home, & my forgiving Friends. _Wednesday 6._ Ben is making a great Bustle about going to Philadelphia--He almost counts the Hours--We propose to go next Wednesday. But with composure, & Patience, yet with great Satisfaction I anticipate the near approaching Day. _Ben_ begs me to acquaint him with the manners of the People in regard to Religion, and he swears he can suit himself to any serious, or formal Visage-- Mrs _Carter_, & Miss _Corbin_, after Breakfast rode to Colonel Frank-Lee's--We dine alone. I informed the Colonel that I do not think it will be convenient for me to continue with him longer than one year--He discovered some dissattisfaction; I told him my reason & he assented--he honours me, by putting in me so much confidence as to commission me to find out and recommend to Him some young Gentleman to succeed me in the instruction of his Children--He flattered my vanity also by reading a Letter to me which I am to bear to Dr Witherspoon, the contents of it as follows-- "Robert _Carters_ compliments to Dr _Witherspoon_: He has the pleasure to acquaint Him that Mr Fithians Method of teaching, & his conduct are highly approved here; He is about to visit his friends in _New-Jersey_, & will bring these from Sir, Your humble Servt"--