One week To dayCorrected:Today since my nephew left your immediate care, and his parentsEditorial Note: Alexander Hamilton Tilton and Abigail Tilton are anxious for your saving power to be renewed in his behalf. But this is the period of excitement in N. HampshireExpanded:New Hampshire and the ballot box controls, hence, he cannot visit you until next week. His Mother wished me to write you for the purpose of renewing your influence— a to ask you to hold him back from his easily besetting sinsHeb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, , he is begining Corrected: beginning to smoke again and they so fear if he indulges in this that the worst of all his habits, viz., drinking intoxicating liquor, may return. His parentsEditorial Note: Alexander Hamilton Tilton and Abigail Tilton wish you to make these things impossible to him until [?] Unclear or illegible  he returns to you accompanied by his Mother, which we hope will be soon. [?] Unclear or illegible  His parents are truly grateful and somewhat encouraged at the success so [?] Unclear or illegible  far.

A word about my own self. I am suffering somewhat from my old habits, pain in the back and stomach, a cold just now, and billiousCorrected:bilious., Wont Corrected: Won't you laugh when I tell you since I have been trying to effectCorrected:affect Albert, I am suffering from a constant desire to smoke!!Editorial Note: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby’s method of healing often involved his “taking on” the symptoms of the illnesses his patients were experiencing. One form this could take is that of a transference of the symptoms of a patient’s illness from the patient’s body to his, after which he would then work to overcome the symptoms he was now himself experiencing. In other cases he would feel the symptoms of the patient without as complete a transference. Mary Baker Eddy (then Mrs. Patterson), in this case trying to use what she understood of Quimby’s methods to help her nephew Albert resist the desire to smoke, found herself experiencing the same desires as Albert. do pray rid me of this feeling. I should think it deplorable to feel long as Albert does. He says he constantly longs to smoke. But we think he has not drank inproper Corrected: improper beverages since his return; however, wont Corrected: won't you include this in your catalogue when you send the subtle fluid of mind, to or spirit, to govern matter.

Love to Mrs P.