You were very wise to write me what you had heard of meEditorial Note: See V00984., thus giving me the opportunity of flatly denying the charge of speaking ill of you,

Whoever says it lies!

I was not well used by the management of affairs in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts.

Such a letter as Miss Bartlett wrote me was wholly uncalled for and absolutely malicious.

It decided me to take up with the offer of editing the Mental Science MagazineEditorial Note: This is a periodical founded by A. J. Swarts. while its editor was in Kansas.

Having acquaintance with some literary ladies in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois I was urged by them to tell them of the new scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

Then my friends grew many and warm. They have put my name before the public in a way obnoxious to me, but my knowledge of the older philosophies as corroborative evidence to this has drawn around me literary people who did not wait for my scruples.

The charge against me of "Mesmerism" is puerile and ridiculous, Your students make themselves simple by such attempts. to damage me.

The Children's hospital I had in mind when I first wrote to you three years ago still looms in the future. But a nearer future than when I was in Boston.

Whoever set you against me has the wrong to answer for before the bar of God. I have nothing to do with the matter.

Oh, if you could only have been mental enough to see what I might be and do – and given me time to work past and out of the sea through which I was passing when Mrs. Crosse suddenly ordered me to leave & Dr. Frye wrote the strange letterEditorial Note: See V01115.! I have spoken your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy & work into places which had never heard of it to think seriously of it! Quite different from the false charge your students make. I never make believe, nor beg for affection. Affection is denied me when I do so. But it is as precious to me as to others.