Dear Reverend Sir
I cannot help you in this case. I know very little of the family and have, in fact, only heard one side of the story. Still I can hardly believe that there can be any chance of peace but in a voluntary separation, while the consequences of such separation to the p2children seem ruinous. In London they lived far from me and I saw them together or apart very seldom: so seldom that I believe you must have better grounds of forming a judgment p3than I have.
Misery! Misery! May you be the means of some good to them.
Your faithful servant in Christ
Albany Jas Christie
1 oct. 1871
111 Mount StreetLondon. W.