Letter from Mary Moody Emerson to Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Good enough?] if I can't [go] for the [various] speculation yesterday on health lost me what I learnt most [belittle] to [fancie].

This amiable youth is ignorant of human [?nature] he in the very pulpit shut out the better [?genius] of charity - that of giving to beggars at the door - the door where Lazarus tried. I fought to [take] of the effect to the [hearer?] I said you would as soon

erected a [gollows] in the desk as said to. Did I ??? your will? CC ought to go & will tho' he talks of time how absurd what is time but to sympathise with the publik & what is like eternity as to admire a better speaker?