Your remakable Corrected: remarkable compositionEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I have just read in the form of a letter of condolence.

You will please accept my acknowledgement of your motive in sending 10 dollarsEditorial Note: $10.00 in 1865 is the equivalent of $158.78 in 2020. to your sister, whom you say is in "want," and you will [?] Unclear or illegible  also receive with it your money.

Your polite insult in accusing me of telling Mrs. Bragdon the facts relative to my family, are sufficient for her to see how I have been, and still [?] Unclear or illegible am accused of the most diabolical l [?] Unclear or illegible ies by you all; for which you shall have the credit once, and I have handed her your letter. She says to me "you told me not to write, but I did it without your knowledge " and have fully satisfied myself" She has asked me Why my folks did not visit me? and what little I have been obliged to say has given no one such an idea of you, as your own letter, and campaign into PortlandEditorial Note: Portland, Maine; but which I gcare little for except with strangers, you cannot injure me with those to with whom I am known.

You have done as I should have expected of you. Perhaps it might have been expected of by another had they know [?] Unclear or illegible n you turned me out of doors in sickness to give our house to a man who n was waiting your aid to commit a murder! without the sale he would not have thought of doing it.

When I were a witness of Capt, Pilsbury's letter of sympathy to you in an hour of extremity, did I answer it to his humiliation? or did I insult Your friend as you have mine who alone has enabled me to live the past weeks out of an alms house. But I shall not be dependent on even her, but I shall go to one when I can no longer manage to keep myself out but on charity

May your religion and that of Fathers prepare you to meet your sister and her child where you so charitably wishes them — in heaven

With a desire for your happiness and love for my enemiesMatt 5:43 ¶Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Matt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Matt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Luke 6:27 ¶But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Luke 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.