February 12 Thursday – Ellen (Mary) Keily finished her Feb. 11 to Sam.

      Feb. 12th. It is now about 3 o.clock in the after noon, and I hear shooting which brings my mind Easter Monday sixty five I heard the sound of a cannot at four o.clock in the morning and my brain was that far gone that I felt if I heard the sound the third time I couldn’t live and I said oh stop that. … Now Mark, I am scribbling too much. I wish some Person, would take my case in hand and give me chance to Prove that I did see Jesus not for my own good but for the benefit of the People. Ah Mark, how different the People would live if they did see the sad face of Jesus, in sixty five when the North and South were in their glory acting the fool, or how different the People would live if they did see the Picture of Jesus, taken along with the Picture of Abraham Lincoln, in the manner in which both did appear in St. Louis in sixty five & Mark, how the little room I am writing this in brings to my mind the room Jesus did appear 12th of January 1868. [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From my lunatic. (Sent her the $5 / Feb. 21/80.)”; see Sam’s Feb. 21 reply. Keily sent Sam more letters, twelve survive. This was the only one found so far that he answered.