Boston July 11:1749 Dear Sr.,

These (after my sincere Regards to yr. self) may let you know that I very gladly recevd. yours of the 3d. instant.1 And with regards to the school you spake of I know nothing more at present than when I saw you last But exspect to go to Grotton2 next week & shall then make it my buisness to Serch out the whole of the Affair. You may remember I told you that Luninburge school was Vacant.3 Please to send by a line to me at Grotton whether if you should be disappointed at Littleton you would chuse to Engage at Luninburge. And I will do you all the Service I am capable of in that as well as in all other respects. As to our intended Journey I understand you can't conveiniently accomblish it this faul, but I hope (Deo Volente4) to have an opportunity to see you shortly and then we'll Traverse that affair.

This Kind Sr., wishining you the best of Heaven's blessings is in the greatest haste imaginable from your constant Friend and humble Sert.

SAMLL. HAVEN

P: S. I am not in a good state of health at present.

RC ; addressed: "For Mr: Robert Treat Paine att Boston These"; endorsed.

1.

Not located.

2.

Haven had accepted a position to keep a school at Groton (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 12:383).

3.

At this time RTP was casting about for a school teaching position. He accepted the Lunenburg offer on Aug. 30, noting in his diary: "This day I agreed with Mr. Thomas Prentice of Lunenburg to keep said Town's school @ 180 per Ann: unacum Board &c." Thomas Prentice, the son of Rev. John Prentice, was a leading citizen of Lunenburg and had been a schoolmaster at Lancaster (C. J. F. Binney, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or Prentiss Family... [Boston, 1852], 165–167).

4.

God willing.