Your letter informs me of a fact that before I had no legal evidence of yet I had told Richard that such we Corrected: were my impressions that you had without my consent or knowledge copied the Mss.Editorial Note: See A11314. of Dr. Quimby which belong exclusively to me and to such students as contract to receive their instructions After you refused to go on with your studies as per agreement I instructed Richard Kennedy to take the Mss.Expanded:manuscripts from you and he wrote me he had done did so. Then I wrote you that even after your agreement to study with him this science that if you desired to give up the bargain it up I would relinquish my claim on this ground that for the use of the Mss.Expanded:manuscripts that you had before [?] Unclear or illegible  with you, aftert the time of our agreement, and for the instruction you had already received I would in consideration of the 25 dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1869 is the equivalent of $475.76 in 2020. which you had paid me as an advance fee. give up our ag [?] Unclear or illegible reement

But now I learn from your own [?] Unclear or illegible signature that you have retained a copy of those MssExpanded:manuscripts. This was a fraud for which I must hold you or any other person responsible who should commit such an act Now if you wish for a private settlement I will spare your feelings and charge you 50 dollsEditorial Note: $50.00 in 1869 is the equivalent of $951.51 in 2020. only for the copy; but if you do not wish to settle in this manner I shall certainly take measures to protect myself against such damage.