You may wonder what all my increasing work means. & you may think that I am indifferent toward you. & ignore the credit most certainly you're As Written: your due. This is not the case and no matter how many nor who identity with me. I cannot be drawn into injustice nor to see without clarity.

I can see your real inwardness in a remark that you once made at a dinner table in Boston to the effect "Mr. Swarts is smart, and he would have been with me if it had not been for the actions of some of my students in Chicago." This is true & is quite likely, & yet none of my movements have been for any revenge & never shall be. I think only kindly of you & am not blind to the great discoveries to which you have been led, & yet I do not mean by this to express my faith in the final success of the title ChristianAs Written:Christia Science."

Please allow me to act the part of a brother when I say that it is unkind & wrong in any of you thereEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts or Mrs. Crosse to start the slander that Mrs. S. & I are not married. The CountyAs Written:Co. Clerk records here will & do show my license & Dr Noble of Union Park CongregationalAs Written:Cong. Church married us a we have his certificateAs Written:certif. This must not go too far. If your Miss Brown here is the source of stuff like this or other falsehood. It will be looked into ere long. unless it ceases.

Now it is not true that I engaged Mrs. Plunkett to go to you & interfere in any way. but in good faith I told her to bear my kind wishes to you & to propose to you my offer for us to try & harmonize & unite our work. I went far enough to say that I would surrender the title of my JournalEditorial Note: Mind-Cure Journal & if you could see a reasonable concession & vary from your title & let us unite upon some other title. perhaps Mental Science & thus not be antagonistic but unite for the great work. In the light of this proposition. it is now much out of place for the immates of the M. M. C. to circulate the false word that I hired Mrs. P. to go east & to assail you. I did not & can meet such talk in strength if crowded too much upon me.

Now I am quite certain that Mrs. P. is a good true woman & that some of you may get into trouble if you are not careful. She acted in your cityEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts & toward you on her own Judgment. I am clear of any unmanly course or adviceAs Written:advise.

I am meeting grand success & is true & many staunch ones in New EnglandAs Written:Engd. are turning toward my work and a wonderful turning to us is near.

I could counsel As Written: counsil a better course than for Mrs. Crosse to strike at me as she seems to. I can bear a good deal. but cannot too much.

There is no truth in the talk at the M. M. C. that I am in any way against Mrs. Swarts, for I am not. We live in best harmony & she is a most prudent chaste & patient wife & I cannot allow her name traduced as it is above reproach.

You have no truer friend at heart in this city than Mrs. S. is & no one ever hears her say aught against any of you. but all is in the highest principle toward you. She feels that Mrs. P- should not have assailed you. & defends you all. Why are you all so wrongly informed of us. Is someone here misleading you? How can you be led by the untrue & prejudiced ones?

I shall work on & enlarge my movements & great strength will soon be added & it is more than folly to try to check this work by traducing. I must leave you all free to speak ill or well. but I am living hourly above wrong or reproach & have no fear.

Wishing you all only well