Mr. McLellan tells me of your suggestion that Mr. Chandler be invited to call on you and talk with you, and says that you want me to write my views on this and send it to you by messenger.

I think I thoroughly know W. E. Chandler. I have carefully observed his attitude of mind with reference to yourself personally and this case. The objection to your plan is that he strongly disbelieves in you and in your system of healing and in your religion. He has convinced himself that the claims of yourself and your followers with reference to healing the sick, are arrant humbuggery. He so states in the public press and in court documents (see enclosure), one of which he tried to file today As Written: to-day and which the court, upon my objection, refused to allow him to file.

The differences between you and Chandler are fundamental. His only purpose in going to your house would be to get some advantage over you. He would not meet you with the same spirit with which you would receive him. I advise you not to invite him.

If your son George should express a desire to go to your house to see and talk with his mother, it would be a different proposition. I still have hopes that he and Mary may see that they have been wrong and ask leave to go and tell you so. I should encourage that meeting but not the other.

I advise you not to publish the card like the one you sent to me, in the PatriotEditorial Note: The Daily Patriot newspaper in Concord, New Hampshire or elsewhere, and for the reason that it will not in the least touch Chandler's heart or feelings. He would coldly scrutinize such a card to find if there was not something in it which he might make use of against you. He would undoubtedly distort its meaning and find in it what you do not intend to say.

Let me add that your policy of dignified silence with reference to these enemies of yourself has commended itself to the strong men who have talked with me and who have not the pleasure of knowing you personally. With warm expressions of approval they have referred to the personal dignity of character which you have shown and the dignified way in which this litigation has been carried on in your behalf.

In case you are inclined to question the soundness of the foregoing, you would better read the enclosed brief of thirteen pages, which Mr. Chandler passed to me this morning and which Judge Chamberlin would not let him file. If, upon reading this document, you still feel like inviting him to your house, I shall be greatly surprised.

As this is the only copy I have of Chandler's brief, please return for my files. I will have a copy made for you if you desire.