I try to go along, in my humble way, doing as near right as I can, never harming anybody, and never throwing out insinuations.

As for 'her lord and his effects,' they are of no interest to me.

I trust I have effects enough of my own--shall endeavor to get along with them, at any rate, and not go mousing around to get hold of somebody's that are 'void.' But do you not see ?--this woman is a widow--she has no 'lord.' He is dead--or pretended to be, when they buried him.

Therefore, no amount of 'dirt, bathing,' etc., etc., howsoever 'unfairly followed' will be likely to 'worm him from his folly'-- if being dead and a ghost is 'folly.' Your closing remark is as unkind as it was uncalled for; and if report says true you might have applied it to yourself, sir, with more point and less impropriety.
Very Truly Yours, SIMON ERICKSON.
"In the course of a few days, Mr.Greely did what would have saved a world of trouble, and much mental and bodily suffering and misunderstanding, if he had done it sooner.

To wit, he sent an intelligible rescript or translation of his original note, made in a plain hand by his clerk.