Accession: 305.43.002
Editorial Title: John S. Norvell to Mary Baker Eddy, June 25, 1886
Author: John S. Norvell 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 25, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by John S. Norvell on unlined paper from Carroll, Iowa.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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Your Kind favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. receivedAs Written:recd. today As Written: to day thank you for your As Written: you kindly interest As Written: intrest in me. I would be glad to be Booked for your next class, for I see you take a numberAs Written:no. of Ministers free but my means are so limited that I could not or cannot As Written: can not see my way clear to take the trip to Boston and back from the fact that I spent everything As Written: every thing I had on a sick wife. who died about a year ago. having As Written: haveing been in a decline for about 6 years and perfectly helpless for a year before As Written: befor she died. I spent all "my living on Physcians"Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, Mark 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. Mark 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Luke 8:43 ¶And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Luke 8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. and got in debt also and I am not quite clear yet. Her Trouble was the same as the case your refer to on P.P. 200 of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ulceration or consumption of the Bowels I believe she could have been As Written: ben healed by christian science.

When does your next class meet.

Yours for Truth
J.S. Norvell
Handshift:Mary Baker EddySay the first of Autumn As Written: Awtum probably
305.43.002
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your Kind favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. recd.Expanded:received to day Corrected: today thank you for you Corrected: your kindly intrest Corrected: interest in me. I would be glad to be Booked for your next class, for I see you take a no.Expanded:number of Ministers free but my means are so limited that I could not or can not Corrected: cannot see my way clear to take the trip to Boston and back from the fact that I spent every thing Corrected: everything I had on a sick wife. who died about a year ago. haveing Corrected: having been in a decline for about 6 years and perfectly helpless for a year befor Corrected: before she died. I spent all "my living on Physcians"Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, Mark 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. Mark 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Luke 8:43 ¶And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Luke 8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. and got in debt also and I am not quite clear yet. hHer Trouble was the same as the case your refer to on P.P. 200 of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ulceration or consumption of the Bowels I believe she could have ben Corrected: been healed by christian science.

When does your next class meet.

Yours for Truth
J.S. Norvell
Handshift:Mary Baker EddySay [?] Unclear or illegible  the Autumn first of Awtum Corrected: Autumn probably
 
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