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| Accession: | 139.23.003 |
| Editorial Title: | Lucinda M. Reeves to Mary Baker Eddy, November 25, 1881 |
| Author: | Lucinda M. Reeves |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | November 25, 1881 |
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Lucinda M. Reeves on lined paper from Washington, D.C.
Editorial Note: Reeves thanks Eddy for her November 23, 1881, letter (not extant). She writes that
she is always pleased and strengthened by Eddy's letters and by her kindness for someone
so insignificant. Reeves expresses disappointment that she will not get to see Eddy
as soon as she had hoped but assures Eddy of her trust in whomever she chooses to
send to Washington, D.C. to help with Christian Science work. However, she warns that
the person or persons Eddy sends must have the financial means to sustain themselves
while they build up a paying practice of Christian Science healing. Reeves shares
the challenges she has had in that regard, and she writes that her niece has been
working as a seamstress so that Reeves can devote herself wholly to the Christian
Science practice. Reeves then describes a patient who has rheumatism, which flares
up when it is cold or there are storms. Reeves has healed her of headaches, malarial
fever, and a toothache but wonders why she has not been successful in healing her
rheumatism. The patient has other illnesses that Reeves has not been able to heal,
including a painful cough, vomiting and stomach pain, hemorrhoids, prolapsus uteri,
and difficulty with her monthly menstrual periods. Reeves wishes she could make the
patient completely well. She asks Eddy to send her arguments with which to treat rheumatism
and adds that it is a very common illness in the Washington, D.C. area. She also asks
for the best arguments to use in treating hemorrhoids, as she feels that if she can
heal them, she will attract other people who are willing to pay her. Reeves mentions
a healing of a man with pleurisy, who had been treated with "mustard plasters" before
turning to Reeves for treatment. He was soon completely well and went to work. She
writes that chronic illnesses seem to cling strongly to her patients. Reeves has asked
Eldridge J. Smith for help in facilitating the Eddys trip to Washington, D.C., but Smith said he is
not able to help financially at this time. Reeves closes by saying that she wishes
she could always know what is right and what is wrong and not make mistakes.
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