It would be impossible to write all that has happened between these dates but I will briefly tell. I left C[lifton] S[prings] apparently well the 30th of April went to Gen. Conf. and stayed till the 17th. Then visited friends in Chicago, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Penn., meeting Homer the 3rd of July in N.Y. Sometime in June I noticed a small lump on my breast and intended asking advice from Dr. Hirst in N.Y. but missed him by one day. In Portland¹ I was examined Aug. 15th and was operated on the 20th in Boston in the Deaconess Hospital by Dr. Brewster. I was taken to the Milton Hosp. to convalesce. Was 13 days in the Deaconess Hospital and 3 weeks in Milton then went to Georgia’s. Since then I’ve been having X-ray treatments every three weeks. It has been a terrible experience but God has been with me & helped me. Many times all I could do was to say “What time I am afraid I will trust the Lord.”² Tonight the message in Josh. 1 comes to me: “I will not fail you” “Be of good courage, be not dismayed”³—I am in New York at Dr. White’s training school just to get my mind on something else beside myself. I saw Dr. Avison today and he examined me. He tells me he has an X-ray expert and new apparatus to take back with him in February.

[In another hand in pencil: “Lulu’s last diary brief summary of furlough—”]