A year ago next Saturday my husband died after only six days illness, leaving but fifteen dollarsEditorial Note: $15.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $395.35 in 2019., after all expenses were paid to support me and my two childrenEditorial Note: Katherine Lathrop and John Carroll Lathrop. I had been an invalid since I was twenty years old, and at the time of his death could'ntCorrected:couldn’t stand on my feet ten minutes at a time. My friends got a position for as teacher in one of our public schools, for my seventeen year old daughter, my eldest child. My mother who is a member of my family, gives me. my house rent free, and I let my rooms. In this way I managed to get along until the middle of January when I went to Chicago, and was treated by and also studied with Mrs G. P. Noyes. Since the last of April I have been practicing Christian Science. Mrs Noyes thinks for a young metaphysician I have done very well, but people here are beginning to find out that we have a college here in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, and they seem to think that I cant Corrected: can’t understand my business because I am not a graduate of it. A few days ago I was offered by a rail-road man, whose child I have been treating a pass from here to Chicago and a half-fare ticket from there to Boston. Now the only difficulty in my way is the hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,635.64 in 2019. for the Normal lessons, I see in the "Science Journal" that a reduction is made to indigent students. Would you be willing to make one in my case? I do so need a helping hand just now. If I can go to the college I will give take with me a young lady twenty-five years old, who is able to pay full price. Does a full course for which you charge students living over an hundred miles from Boston $200.00Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $5,271.29 in 2019. include the whole four branches? Would you think it desirable, in order to make me thorough, for I am very anxious to be a successful scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist, for me to take the whole course? How long, if I do so, would I have to stay in BExpanded:Boston - and how much would I have to pay for board? How soon could my friend and myself go?

I dont Corrected: don’t like to ask you for a reduction, but I am so enthusiastic about the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, I am so desirous of doing creditable work, and I am so possessed with the idea, that to thoroughly understand the subject I must go to you.

Hoping I have not wearied you too much, and that the way may be made plain for me