The approach of a new session furnishes me a fit opportunity to express to you my sincere gratitude for the confidence you have reposed in me, and your concurrence in whatsoever I have deemed advisable for the good of your daughters.  In my rules of discipline and of order you have manifested a disposition to sustain me, and if I am not mistaken, you have seen reason to be gratified by the progress of your children in study.  My personal feelings toward the former members of my school are feelings of interest and respect.  I feel a pride in calling them my pupils, and in referring to their diligence, good order, and progress under my instruction.  To the members of the school during the last session, I beg leave particularly to refer.  Justice to them constrains me to say that their unusually correct conduct, as a body in general, their willing compliance with my directions, conspired to render the session highly agreeable to me, and to themselves both pleasant and profitable.  Good order with them was the rule; disorder was the exception; and it may be mentioned as worthy of especial notice that their intercourse with each other throughout, was remarkably characterised by perfect harmony and true friendship.  In these statements I know that I shall be borne out by the testimony of every individual acquainted with the internal affairs of the school.  Some of the pupils will not probably return.  They go out with the sincere attachment of their teacher, and with his best desires for their welfare.

I have taken this public method of addressing you for want of a more private.  Had I any other feelings than those of satisfaction, I should have communicated them to you privately.

Some changes will be made in the instruction of the school, but I stand pledged to my patrons to furnish the best facilities for an education, and to devote my entire time and attention to such as may be committed to my charge.

Wm. Twining, Principal