You will see by the report sent that there were 338 books on hand Jan 1st or rather perhaps I should have said 211 on hand and 127 out on sale, some of which have undoubtedly been disposed of. In taking the books that I did from the house I did nothing but what I thought was right for I felt that I was the one to look after them as I had obligated myself to the am'tExpanded:amount of 170$Editorial Note: $170 in 1877 is equivalent to $4,738.24 in 2022. and the [?] Unclear or illegible  books and plates were what I had to show for it. It is true that I have not done right by you in not reporting once a month the progress made in the sales. I do not know as this case admits of any excuse but I kept hoping that there might be something better to state. I wish the books sold and would gladly have the Dr. or any oneCorrected:anyone you might sanction take the same if you think best as it undoubtedly is I have taken the copyright out of the safe for I had thought that [?] Unclear or illegible  if I was agoing into practice I should need to feel that I was free from all except what directly pertained thereto I told the Dr I should like to see you perhaps ten minutes and this was one of the subjects I had wished to speak about or see how it could be arranged the other was as I had told him that I was willing to act just as you thought best in regard to the practice

I wished to say a few words in regard to [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins. location etc but your reply to that request indicates that I am too repulsive for you to endure my presence if such is the case certainly you cannot wish me to go into practice and so indicate in your address [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses. and as to your remarks about the shoe shop I do not propose to return to points outgrown but I do propose by a cultivation of Christian virtues and an [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins. understanding of "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to attain unto the example set before although you perhaps will think is a long way distance off, I acknowledge it and [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses. let me say for now and all time that whoever speaks against you is and has been my enemy that your foes are my foes and I wish this damnable place was sunk If you have a husband that will make you happy from the bottom of my heart I say thank God for none need help and comfort more than my teacher; it is true I hdid hold you as a personal God and my idol had to be torn away. If I am faithful here the sooner I shall awaken in that better land where there is no parting and I hope the occasional taste of the cup will place me higher I also had a fear that mesmerism had been used to produce certain recent results and can you wonder at a momentary hatred? I felt that I should like to sink from out of [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins.existence for I know if such had been the case Truth might perhaps again be buried beneath the accumulating dust of centuries by the stopping of your [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses. labors Again I did not feel that it was honorable for the Dr. to drop his practice so as suddenly as he did; regarding it as something which would be very detrimental to the ca [?] Unclear or illegible useEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins.I know you would not do anything which you did not conscientiously think right, and pertaining to the greatest good of the greatest number; if necessary [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses. to the sacrifice of all self-interestCorrected:self interest.

The world may love a Judas better than a Jesus but I do not intend that it shall love me for I rather have its hatred than approval I have expressed to you pretty plainly what my views and fears have been and had decided if they were realized to go forever away to some place where Science had never been heard of and there start as best I could

[*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins. If you give me credit of having any reason whatever you will know that I understand the position you occupy too well to do that which I think is in opposition to your teachings [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses. Now dear teacher you need have no apprehensions that I shall try to [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins. injure you or the cause and nothing which you may say or do will cause me to hate or condemn you but I shall endeavor to prove to the world that lo, I am with you, Truth, even to the end [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses.

Some timeCorrected:Sometime I shall thank God for the idol which was taken away but the cup was bitter Whatever makes you happy will cause me to rejoice and thereby I will show my love You ask what I intend to do? the answer is, do right, and if you think safe to trust me in practice I am willing to step forth and prove my Christianity by my works. From what I hear I think I can get a few patients As I told Dr. Eddy the other day that I hoped [?] Unclear or illegible sometime to have a better opinion of him So I will say that [*]Editorial Note: The following text is within parentheses that have been added in the margins. I hope sometime you will have a better opinion of me than what you now do, and will not regret that you took for your student [*]Editorial Note: End parentheses.