I have endeavored to write you sooner, but so many calls and explanations and teaching has come between me and this pleasure, that hitherto I have de [?] Unclear or illegible layed it.

This morning I have but a point of time snatched from my duties and, the Dr. sits by me calling, so I have written to Martha B.Editorial Note: Possibly Martha Rand Baker in just 125 minutses, and my time for yours is quite as limited When I arrived in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts the day you saw me last I found Dr Crafts awaiting me at the Depot, his wife's sister was visiting her and so she could not come, I went to Winter Stat.Expanded:Station and bought some cotton cloth for under clothesCorrected:underclothes, and walked to the Old Colony Depot through the mud without rubbers. am pretty well considering.

I hope you are better and that the little leaven I left will leaven the whole lumpGal 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. I Cor 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? , for Martha dear, this leaven of Truth is not the leaven of the Scribes and PhariseesMatt 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Matt 16:6 ¶Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Matt 16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Matt 16:8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Matt 16:9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Matt 16:10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Matt 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Matt 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. . How is dear sister Abi? I trust ere longCorrected:erelong you may all be cured The little studentEditorial Note: Probably Hiram S. Crafts I left here has been using his tallents Corrected: talents since I were away, and I think he will locate soon in some populous place I found on my return here a gold pen in a newspaper sent to me from LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts, it is a nice thing. How do you get along at homExpanded:home I am anxxiious to hear from Mrs. Tilton.

Now dear sister, I enclose a photograph of the Dr. taken twice on one card, and if you do not care much about it or rather if y [?] Unclear or illegible ou think best you can give it to EllenEditorial Note: Probably Ellen C. Pilsbury Philbrook who takes a captital Corrected: capital in kindness. such as is meant by this offering. I was pleased when he said he would send it to his picture to my sisters, and I told him of Ellen's expression about photographs and asked him if I might not suggest it for her Album? He replied just as we pleased about that. I think one day you will all know him by his healing you

Please excuse this haste

Love to all especially sister Abi and tell her she shall be cured