I don’t know whether this is old or new. Joe Twichell got it from a Cleveland clergyman, who said it was very recent. If you print it, put it where I have marked it in the proof, & send a proof of it to Canada & forward one to me for London. If it is too powerful, squelch it & let me have the MS again.

Some Simsburg ass printed the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den yesterday in the Hartford Times, & did it so wretchedly & nastily & witlessly that I suppose the whole nation of Helen’s Baby’s admirers will welcome it as a very inspiration of humor & read & copy it everywhere.

Your visit was entirely too short. I do hope you will all be able to make a long one when you come in December. We’ll make Johnny & Winnie enjoy it.

This tribe sends loving regards to yours.

Mrs. Gilman has fitful glimmerings of reason, in which she straightway plunges into schemes for paying the swindled creditors, & is soon a frantic maniac again.