Accession: 361.48.042
Editorial Title: George A. Miles to Mary Baker Eddy, March 4, 1887
Author: George A. Miles 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 4, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by George A. Miles on embossed lined paper from East Somerville, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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In justice to Mrs Woodbury I feel that I ought to explain the circumstances of my going to her a little more fully My teacher (Mrs Stetson) was absent at the time and of course I could get no help from her and as I was in Mrs Woodbury's S.S.Editorial Note: Sunday School class at the time and I was so much pleased with her understanding and explanation of the Scriptures that As Written: thak I asked her if I could go through a class with her but she refused because she did not think it would be using Mrs Stetson right and advised me to go through the normal course but I did not care to go through that course then and unfortunately you was just finishing a primary class at that time so she said she would treat me (as I had a slight belief that I never had been able to entirely overcome) and help me all she could consistently As Written: consistantly Now with your permission I should like to go into your next primary class (that is if you think it best for me) for I feel incompetent As Written: incompetant to fill the requirements of a good C. ScientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist. I do not blame Mrs Stetson for this I presume it is all my fault for I am sure she done the best she could for me and she has a student in ConnecticutAs Written:Conn. that has done splendid work so the fault must lie in me. Pardon me for occupying so much of your precious time but I thought it only right that you should know this

Yours Respectfully
George A Miles
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361.48.042
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:George A. Miles

In justice to Mrs Woodbury I feel that I ought to explain the circumstances of my going to her a little more fully My teacher (Mrs Stetson) was absent at the time and of course I could get no help from her and as I was in Mrs Woodbury's S.S.Editorial Note: Sunday School class at the time and I was so much pleased with her understanding and explanation of the Scriptures thak Corrected: that I asked her if I could go through a class with her but she rlefused because she did not think it would be using Mrs Stetson right and advised me to go through the normal course but I [?] Unclear or illegible  did not care to go through that course then a [?] Unclear or illegible nd unfortunately you was just finishing a primary class at that time so she said she would treat me (as I had a slight belief I never that I never had been able to entirely overcome) and help me all she could consistantly Corrected: consistently Now with your permission I should like to go into your next primary class (that s is if you think it best for me) for I feel incompetant Corrected: incompetent to fill the requirements of a good C. ScientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist. I do not blame Mrs Stetson for this I presume it is all my fault for I am sure she done the best she could for me and she has a student in Conn.Expanded:Connecticut that ha [?] Unclear or illegible s done splendid work so the fault must lie in me. Pardon me for occupying so much of your precious time but I thought it only right that you should know this

Yours Respectfully
George A Miles
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