t you wood
have been puled into the water all over. i am glad
you done as you agreed and paid me. you were
prety lait in doing it and i was not to blaim for
thinking you wood not keep your agreement, espesially
as the wimmen all told you not to pay me
a cent.
so i am verry sorry for what i sed and i think
you done prety well for a congirigasional minister
and i hoap you will forgive me even if i am a
unitarial and done beleeve in hel as you do.

yours very respectively
Harry Shute.

i bet when old mister minister gets that leter he will
wish i had staid in his chirch. but it is two lait
now. i bet they will all be sorry i left the chirch.
it aint many fellers whitch are willing to oan up
that they are rong as i have done in these leters.
my granmother usted to say that a soft answer
tirnith away rath. so i bet i have made sum frends
by them leters.

when i got throug wrighting the leters it was almost
time for dinner but i had a little moar time
and i rote one mor to miss Tabithy Wilkins. she
is a old made and she was xcited when i holered
to Beany about the wimmen chasing after the minister
and i dident mean her and so i thougt i had
augt to tell her so she woodent wurry. so i rote
her a leter two. this is what i rote her.

Miss Tabithy Wilkins
Exeter New Hampshire
dear miss Wilkins. when i hollered to Beany at
the picknic last weak about the wimmen running
after the minister you thought i ment you and you
got xcited. i thougt i wood wright and tell you who
i ment. i dident meen you at all. i ment your 2
sisters Mary Ann and Unice and i ment missis
Angilina Annis and Feeby Derborn and 2 or 3
others.
i hoap you have not wurred about this. i rote
jest as soon as i cood for i have been awful sick
and lade between life and deth for a long time and
coodent see ennything becaus my eys were all swole
up by poizen ivory. i gnew you wood be glad to
know i dident meen you, but i wood speek to your
2 sisters if i was you.

yours very respectively
Harry Shute.

after i had rote that i got sum stampls of mother.
she wanted to know what i wanted them for and
when i told her what i had did she sed it was verry
brave of me to admiit i was rong and i must feel
verry happy over it and i sed i did and i et my
dinner and put the leters in the post ofice and all i
have got to do now is to have a good time for the
nex 2 weaks.

September 3th, 186---brite