Your dear letterClick link to view 025A.10.021 document in new window was rec'd on Sat The hour it came my mind turned to you as if you were entering my room and I was very glad to hear from you as you can imagine

At this hour of writing I am sitting at a desk in my front parlor that faces the dome of the Capitol. Only the width of a street is between me and the grounds that surround the Capitol. It took us one week to obtain this boarding place They ask 1,00Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1882 is the equivalent of $25.23 in 2016. per month for our rooms, front and rear parlors, with board. I will tell you what I am doing, and how I am doing it, when we meet. Now I have got to going I intend to take a few hours of each day to visit the interesting portions of this most beautiful city. There is not in America so handsome a City as this, I do believe. Your interesting account of what you are doing fills me with joy. I could clasp you to my heart for it, as soon I hope to do. Yes, I advise you to attend the meetings of the C. S. A. it is best to know what is done, if anything is done. I also recommend that you open meetings in LawrenceEditorial Note: Lawrence, Massachusetts as you have in Boston. Now I wish some one, perhaps Smith, would be detailed to stop those demons dividing every one the from each other whom they cannot turn against me. You could have much more power to hang togetherEditorial Note: Probably an allusion to a quotation from Benjamin Franklin: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” and they know it, hence their efforts. Do not notice any apparent slight, but treat them all the same; walk over it as God walks over human affairs, do not see it, do not feel it, but bless them all, friends and enemiesMatt 5:43 ¶Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Matt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Matt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matt 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Matt 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Matt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Luke 6:27 ¶But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Luke 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. . One thing can you do for me? Please get the "Lynn Union" that has my notice of the ResolutionsClick link to view L09058 document in new window passed by the C. S. A. in it, and send it along. I will be with you to comfort and aid you in April get all the students you please ready.