S. M. I. Henry to E. G. White, February 18, 1898, pp. 4-6

I want very much to say one thing to you. I do not know as I ought to burden you with it, but it concerns one who has been with you so long, and whom I have known from her girlhood before she came to your notice. I refer to Fannie Bolton. I had lost track of her for a good many years; she and my children grew up together; but upon her return from Australia she found me here, and we renewed our old acquaintance. I have always loved Fannie very much, although I have been alive to some defects in her character, and was sorry to see that they had not been chastened and removed, and we had very many earnest talks concerning them, she recognizing, to a certain extent, the truth about herself. She was a great help to me in the beginning concerning your work. She did not introduce the subject, but I had been aroused to interest from some things which had been said to me, and inquired of her if she knew anything about Mrs. White. She replied by telling me that she had been with you all these years. Then I drew her out, and she gave me the basis of hope that in your work there was that for which my soul had longed, for I had always believed that the Spirit of prophecy should live in the church. She did for me all that could be done by any power short of that of the Holy Spirit Himself, to make me understand you.FBS 88.4

I have thought two or three times that I would write you about her, since she had lived with you so long; and you must know her and have a motherly interest in her, and I thought that you might be able to help her. I cannot fathom the difficulty, but I fear that she is in serious spiritual trouble for which she needs a sort of teaching and leading, sympathetic and kind, but true, such as no one here seems to be able to give her, or which she is unable to receive from us, which amounts to the same thing. I am distressed over her and long to help her, but lately she holds herself aloof from me, so that I cannot seem to do what I would like to do. Can you advise me, or better yet, can you come directly to her, with the help she needs? I have prayed that you might be able to give her help, special help. I am sure that because of the manner in which she has always spoken of you, that a loving, sympathetic letter, if it is nothing more, from you, would do her a world of good.FBS 89.1