"Is Mrs. Josephine Curtis Woodbury your friend?"
She tries to make the public believe that she is my friend, but I do not regard her thus. It was only on March 16, 1896—and after I had done all that the Rules and By-Laws of my church in Boston allow, for admitting her a second time into this church—that her scribe sent to me a most abusive letter which I now have, and which I was informed had been made public. Later came another letter from the same source, in which I was threatened with a lawsuit, in April, 1896, unless I did more for Mrs. Woodbury, and unless I did what that letter demanded.
I never tried to harm her, although her scribe alleges that I have. But I did earnestly try to benefit her, even as I would love my enemies.
