This letter of mineEditorial Note: See L02226. was dictated, but I was ignorant of the entire matter on its business basis

I humbly, tearfully, read it, now, and your noble businissCorrected:business-like report — and wish it had not been written.

I have spoken of you always, as a model in promptness, uprightness, executiveness,-and have felt all I said.

Pardon me this once and I never will give you another occasion of this kind to grant me such a favor

A word in explanation. I was given to understand that you delayed the work, and not the P [?] Unclear or illegible ress.Editorial Note: University Press

I felt pushed to make somebody move. My letters, from Europe especially, demand a speedy consumation Corrected: consummation of this whole business Mr. Wilson ought to print my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy faster. He could finish the printing in three weeks, now if he keeps his agreement with my Publisher, and I trust he will. I return the proofs I get on the day they are received. By all means go on with me to the end.

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