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He cares more for His Indian people than any of their friends care do - but though that is true it does not wholly take from hearts interested in the work for them the pain of frustration and delay.  As to your proposed trip to the Hot Springs, it seems the right thing to do - They have proved health-giving in many kinds of disease - Just here I want to ask a question, and further, to ask a frank reply - Does the Government "pay" suffice for your contemplated Extra Expenditures? - If it does not to the extent of those reasonable comforts which as an invalid you ought to have, I believe there are friends of yours in New Haven who will wish to supply them, and will do so gladly in some way which will quite relieve you from any sense of personal feeling of any obligation - Without using any argument drawn from the Example of Love of Our Great and Dear Master, they will fall back on the classic qui facit per alium, facit per se, and regard you as the agent acting for them, filling their place, and working out their duty.  So please tell me frankly what I have asked.-

I trust that when this reaches you next Wednesday that a favorable turn will have come in your disease.  Last week I attended Memorial Services in N.Y. for Mrs Wm'son - [[strikethrough]] whose [[/strikethrough]] The lecture of Mr Mills came with yours - My Mother and daughter thank you for the remembrance and send their regards.
Very Truly Yours
R.L. Fellowes

Transcription Notes:
Qui facit per alium facit per se is a Latin legal term that means, "He who acts through another does the act himself."