Your kind note rec'dExpanded:received without much surprise for I felt, from the first, that you should stay at BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts for a time, and half supposed you would.

You seem to be aware of the "severe trials" awaiting your labors there. I hope our little band – the apostles – will rally around and sustain you, the work you have assumed deserves their greatest effort it seems.

I send you today, paper and medical journal; have met the editors;-, Profs. in the College - they are quite liberal in their views and teachings. I tell them I would like their Diploma. Should be pleased to hear from you all and often.