Please forgive me for not answering your other letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.. but I thought to get time to come down to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts this month so see you, but have been so very busy could not do so. I must come home soon and take a much needed rest. this past week have been up to WatervilleEditorial Note: Waterville, Maine 26 miles above here, I have five patients there in the best families in the town. have been there every afternoon & return on the late train. I stop now 7 days. I was sent for or should not have gone, for I have all I can do here. the Dr's here are very much against me, but I say nothing, let them talk, & I'll have the practice. one of them put an article in the paper this week. headed medical – then now I have forgotten, but the paper is up to my Office. I will cut it out and send it to you next week, when I write to Mr Buswell for papers for new Subscribers— I have six of this same Dr's patients. three of them have paid him hundreds of dollars, with no benefit. now they are well, under my care, he says there was not much of any thingCorrected:anything the matter with them. but it does not trouble me my work is what tells. I am surprised at my success. I want to see you and talk with you, about coming down here to give a lecture. I would love dearly to have you come, but dont think it would be any object to you or to me. not here, the place is so small. I have worked up a good practice, one or two good cures gets through the place & for miles around in a short time. in the course of a year or so think I will go to a much larger place then shall hope to have you to help me, so that it will be an object to us both, to you especially.— I want to give some thingCorrected:something towards helping the church bills & will see about it soon as I come home, if I dont get better will have to come soon. ever since I received your last letter, have been deathly sick and faint to my stomach. I feel like vomiting or fainting all the time. soon as I get up in the morning the sickniss Corrected: sickness begins – and I throw off of my stomach about a spoonful of white froth, then I throw off my food. if I dont succeed in throwing that off. I feel deathly faint. till it is removed by a fearful relaxing of the bo [?] Unclear or illegible wels bowels. I take up the opposite element strong – but I dont get right. I take them up alone, also that they cant injure me through you. now dear teacher what a long letter I have written you. please ansExpanded:answer soon as you have time & I will be more prompt in answering. also hoping you having a happy new Year