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Letter from Katherine Tingley to May Wright Sewall.

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TINGELY, KATHERINE APR. 25, 1918

April 25, 1918.

Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Care of Dr. Wright, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

My dear, dear Comrade,

Will you ever know my distress anxiety and sorrow after reading Mr. Barry's "obituary" of you? Something within me kept saying that it was not so -- yet there it was in print! My first act was to telegraph to the place where you lived, and I not having the name of the residence, had to call it a boarding-house! I have found since that it was a terrible mistake, and through the courtesy of your friends, the lady you stopped with, I heard first by telegram that you were alive and in Grand Rapids, but unfortunately she did not send your address. The next letter, giving details, sent the address in care of Dr. Wright.

The night I heard the news I did not close my eyes. I went over in memory the hours we had spent together, and the happy associations we had ahd blame myself for the things I had not done. I said, "I might have done this, " ories the picture of your being struck down and injured, just at the time when your life should be the richest and most peaceful. I rebelled and suffered and suffered; but now I am glad to hear the news that you are alive and improving.

I thought it so sweet of your niece to write for you. Will you thank her for me? I am going to write you soon and talk to you about your trip here to California. I would love to have you come here, if we could arrange it, but Oh my! I am so pressed for room and we are so pressed for helpers and workers; but I shall do what I can, and you write me what you would like to do.

It is my hope that through the devotion of your neice and the medical help and service of your nephew, Dr. Wright, you will soon be restored to health; but don't overwork. You are most fortunate to be in the home of such lovely people. I envy you, my dear; for here it is a continuous battle for right and the awfulness of the attacks that are made upon this Institution and upon me are appaulling, and show me the wrong side of human nature in a way that I never dreamed could exist even in the most degraded; but as long as I am supposed to have money and am prosperous, I feel that I must submit to efforts of unpricipled people to force money from me.

All who have tried this kind of work have thought that I would rather pay from my "big treasury" (I smile at that!) then have a stir in the courts, but I am made of different material. I am a lover of justice and right action, and would rather spend any money that I have to spare in defense of the truth than to cater to any menaces or demands made upon me. Time will show the awful wrong of the latest call of this kind made upon me, which is based upon the charge that I alienated a husband and got two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from him!!!

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The husband is quite an old man, and not rich, and he never gave me so muc as two hundred and fifty dollars in his life. He did put some money, which he inherited and which was not community money, into the different departments here, and his wife knew about it and joined in with it, and she had no clain upon it. It is the wife who broke up the family and brought this suit, because her husband would not pay the bills of his step-daughter, -- the daughter of his present wife -- unless he could have some control over her morals; and even then he was getting tired, having educated her and having been constantly called upon for money for her.

The bitterness of the complaintant against me is because when she offered me an opportunity to influence her husband to make a separate home for her and give her money for the girl, I refused to so "influence" him and refused to touch the family matters.

It takes time and patience to meet these issues, and it takes considerable money, but I cannot belive that any judge or jury can be so blinded as to favor the complaintant in a decision, after the testimony that I have has been presented. I have to able lawyers, more suited to my taste than any I have had before, and one of them is quite a famous man in this part of the country, for straightforwardness, alertness and decision. There is nothing negative about him. So I go on trusting.

Accept an abundance of love, dear heart. Affectionately Katherine Tingley

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