Coloring I might have been good in, for I do think my eyes are better than those of any one I know.
"Feb.

18, 1854.

If I should make out a calendar by my feelings of fatigue, I should say there were six Saturdays in the week and one Sunday.
"Mr .-- -- somewhat ridicules my plan of reading Milton with a view to his astronomy, but I have found it very pleasant, and have certainly a juster idea of Milton's variety of greatness than I had before.

I have filled several sheets with my annotations on the 'Paradise Lost,' which I may find useful if I should ever be obliged to teach, either as a schoolma'am or a lecturer.

[Footnote: This paper has been printed since Miss Mitchell's death in "Poet-lore," June-July, 1894.] "March 2, 1854.