Dear friend
I was so much grieved & troubled, when Claria(?) showed me your
letter of yesterday that I felt impelled to
write to you directly, to express what I feel
by letter what I know — I cannot think
whose who it is with I am(?) at
the statements that have been made
to you — & the more as they are in a great
measure unfounded — I know
that the brethren cannot seem to
comprehend that this matter is not
in outline & detail entirely in their
hands — & I think them rather given
to gossip — about repeating(?) our plans
than to give rational advice on
substantive aid — I know all about
the origination & (?)ing & (?)
our plans for these Latins(?) — in our
conversations with the Ladies' Society
(?)rith I never heard the (?)notes the
not to deliver a proportion of the
(?)tines — The chi(?)s Grimké were
