Mr. Elder writes Mot [?] Unclear or illegible her as follows: this morning:

"We do not anticipate an immediate trial of the Woodbury cause.Editorial Note: This is a reference to a libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. The suit was filed on July 31, 1899 and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901. The list at the opening of the April term contained a large number of assigned cases which have haken Corrected: taken a good deal of the Court's time, and the opening list is still undisposed of. One of the Jury Sessions (the third) has been taken off from the General list (where your case is) and put upon the Special list. Every spring there is great pressure to try cases which have been allowed to lie over [?] Unclear or illegible through the fall and winter. It would not surprise us if your case was not on the list till late in May or even later." &c.

This looks very much as though the error was determined to keep our case back until about the time of our Annual meetingEditorial Note: The Annual Meeting of The Mother Church is held in early June, and so there was concern about the verdict in the Woodbury suit coming at the same time as Annual Meeting. For this reason, the meeting ended up being postponed until October 1901 and then again until June 1902, so no Annual Meeting was held in 1901. of the Mother Church. Cannot Mr. Morse do something about arranging the time our case comes on to get ahead of this? This letter is so discouraging that unless I am obliged to I shall not show it to Mother. She is literally living in agony from day to day waiting to have this case called up and disposed of and W. is pouring in her hot shot declaring she cannot live through the ordeal. This is of course strictly confidential.