I wish to commend to your favorable notice, Capt. J. F. Linscott, a gentleman who was a student of mine a year ago. He is a man who has been prominently before the public in the west for some nine years as a temperance advocate and lecturer. He has the hearty endorsement of Miss Francis Willard and others of recogniszed standing and influence. Since studying "Christian Science" he has gradually become impelled to give up his former work and devote himself to the furtherance of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. Having been a public instructor for so many years he is – I think – particularly fitted to win people's attention and arouse their interest in whatever subject he chooses to present to them and he can become a powerful and successful advocate of the cause. If you will allow a suggestion as to your course of action, I think you will find it worth your while because of what he can be, to admit him as soon as possible to your normal class – provided o [?] Unclear or illegible f course you find him competent to enter it. The lecture season has already opened; he had engagements which he has given up in order to make a visit to Boston possible; consequently, his time is of more value than that of many f Corrected: of those who study the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. He will have abundant opportunities to enter the field at once after having received your instruction. You can see that the science has taken deep root in him already, for it to lead him to abandon that which has been as dear to him as life itself for so many years.

Hoping that you will be able to send him as soon as possible a favorable reply, I am