You may be surprised to hear from me, but I write to tell you that if you choose you can forestall a great downfall. If you come out frankly and acknowledge that the truth in your "revelation", the method of healing, etc, came from Dr. Quimby, (as your letters show that you know) the world will respect you and you will go down to history with a reputation. But if it all comes from outsiders, and after your death that which many are now withholding, it will be a very black record which will throw you into utter discredit.

I know those who have hunted up the whole history, all about the Lynn boardinghouseAs Written:boarding house, Mr. Morse and the babe burned in the stove, etc, etc. and I know too of those who are preparing the evidence in regard to your indebtedness to Dr. Quimby, and I know what will come out, little by little, and that nothing can stop it, for the people demand it. It is utterly useless to try to head it off, or to reiterate the old statements.

And so I advise you to make a clear breast of it.

If you do, these darker things may not be published.

I make this appeal both for your own sake, and because every day that you delay you are permitting people to believe and to convince others of a falsehood.