I have been intending to write you for sometimeCorrected:some time it does me so much good to recieve Corrected: receive a letter from you but there has always seemed to be something to prevent me but I have not had anything of importance to write about and I know that Mr Morrill has written you often. We are expecting to form an association here. I know that we shall become more of a target then, for of course the object will be to break us up, I have no fear for myself, but the new ones are so hard to understand the subtlety of this question it is hard for them to comprehend that Error (Mortal Mind) Counterfeits good in every particular and endeavors to assume its proportions Several of them have been to me for help light on some things, Dr Morrill, Mrs Gesterfeldt – Miss Bickford – Beecher Mr Smith, Mr Wickersham, I have done all that I could to help them – I have thought it funny though that Morrill & Wickersham should come to me though instead of going to Old Dr Sherman when they were former students of his – I did not go see Mrs Coursen for I felt knew that she would consider it very presumptuous on my part and that I should be very unwelcome for if she couldnt Corrected: couldn’t recieve Corrected: receive what you had said she surely could not recieve Corrected: receive what I had to say – Her effort has seemed to be to Corrected: too hard reflect all she could on the instructions she had recieved Corrected: received from you she says that she could not do anything The way you Taught her, and after trying it awhile she returned to her former method, and she did not succeed as well that way as she had before, but she was in hopes to get back where she was before she studied with you – but she continues teaching in her old way, and her students help her, she has some oneCorrected:someone to help her all of the time.

I am rapidly losing my fear for I am finding this utter beginning to realize the utter nothingness of the opposite of God and that there really is no power in Malice however concentrated or consolidated it may appear it is simply an appearance – and I know that if I heal with the truth that my superstructure will stand against the breakers and storms of Error, malice, or mortal mind, or whatever else the lie may name itself, because it is built on God –

My BusinessEditorial Note: “Business” here probably refers to Noyes’ Christian Science practice. however has not been as good as before you came, but I have made up my mind that my Business is just as good as I deserve it to be, and it is improving and that my success is just as good as I deserve it to be, that I have had a good deal to contend with I know, because I am understood to be one of the first here, but I appreciate that what I surmount now will not have to be done at any future time, and the sooner I overcome it the better, I can see that this (Statement) Malice has its uses for it for it forces us higher – In regard to the Paper that brave little sheet, I will do what I can but I do not think it can be more than one dollarEditorial Note: $1.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $27.69 in 2017. per month, for My Husband you know failed in BostonEditorial Note: Gideon P. Noyes had a failed business as a fish wholesaler in Boston. and he had hardly enough left to pay his fare out here, and I have had to help him to start again in BExpanded:Boston

There is among my acquaintance a very short woman, almost a Dwarf, and she has a Wooden Leg, but no one would know that, she walks a little uneven, but she is naturally very smart, She has read your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy., and is very much interested in them, and has helped her Sister from what she has acquired of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in that way, she grasps it very easily, With her disadvantages she has taken care of herself, and saved some money, she wants to study, and I have advised her to come to you for Instruction, would you teach her? She is Norweigian Corrected: Norwegian , but they have settlements out here, and they need workers of course, She is a very nice little Person or I would not interest myself for her to go to the College.