Accession: 392.50.005
Editorial Title: Janet T. Colman to Mary Baker Eddy, October 15, 1884
Author: Janet T. Colman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 15, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Janet T. Colman on lined paper from Edgartown, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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⇉ Handshift:Janet T. ColmanEdgartownEditorial Note: Edgartown, Massachusetts Oct 15th 1884.
Dear Mrs Eddy,

It is a week tomorrow since I came down here. I had no news to write you so thought it best to wait until I had. Am afraid, if I were to stay in this town for years you would never hear any news from me. I never was in such a dead place as this is, and so wedded to matter.

My husband had thoughts of going on to New York on some business for his father, and I was thinking of going with him, to see if I could find a place there to practice, but his father changed his plans, so ours were changed.

I had a belief last night as if I felt blue but don't feel so this morning. I feel though it is my duty to work in the “Science”Editorial Note: Christian Science if I can only find the place to work in. My husband says he wants to go out West. I feel that I want to be with him wherever he goes. He says he will try and get something to do in the place where it would be good for me to go. Can you tell me if any place where they are wanting a “Scientist”Editorial Note: Christian Scientist to help them. If you could tell me you would be doing me a great service. You cannot begin to tell just how I feel. I feel as if I were alone, and had to remain so. But “God is for me and who can be against me.”Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? I really need to be working so as to make some money. My husband is not making anythingAs Written:any thing neither am I. I am Willing to work if I can get the chance. How I wish I could raise some of the folks down here from the dead. They don't even seem willing to listen to me when I tell them about itEditorial Note: Christian Science. So I have been letting them alone. If I could only explain the “Science”Editorial Note: Christian Science the way you can I know I could wake them up.

My husband is real Well and so is my mother.

I would so have liked to have gone to the College to have been with you. But it was not to be.

I am getting used to having my plans disappointed.

How much I shall miss not being able to hear you on Sunday's. I am not going to think of it though.

My mother & husband join with me in love to you.

Your loving student,
Janet T. Colman.
Edgartown,
MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
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⇉ Handshift:Janet T. ColmanEdgartownEditorial Note: Edgartown, Massachusetts Oct 15th 1884.
Dear Mrs Eddy,

It is a week tomorrow since I came down here. I had no news to write you so thought it best to wait until I had. Am afraid, if I were to stay in this town for years you would never hear any news from me. I never was in such a dead place as this is, and so wedded to matter.

My husband had thoughts of going on to New York on some business for his father, and I was thinking of going with him, to see if I could find a place there to practice, but his father changed his plans, so ours were changed.

I had a belief last night as if I felt blue but don't feel so this morning. I feel though it is my duty to work in the “Science”Editorial Note: Christian Science if I can only find the place to work in. My husband says he wants to go out West. I feel that I want to be with him wherever he goes. He says he will try and get something to do in the place where it would be good for me to go. Can you tell me if any place where they are wanting a “Scientist”Editorial Note: Christian Scientist to help them. If you could tell me you would be doing me a great service. You cannot begin to tell just how I feel. I feel as if I were alone, and had to remain so. But “God is for me and who can be against me.”Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? I really need to be working so as to make some money. My husband is not making any thingCorrected:anything neither am I. I am Willing to work if I can get the chance. How I wish I could raise some of the folks down here from the dead. They don't even seem willing to listen to me when I tell them about itEditorial Note: Christian Science. So I have been letting them alone. If I could only explain the “Science”Editorial Note: Christian Science the way you can I know I could wake them up.

My husband is real Well and so is my mother.

I would so have liked to have gone to the College to have been with you. But it was not to be.

I am getting used to having my plans disappointed.

How much I shall miss not being able to hear from you on Sunday's. I am not going to think of it though.

My mother & husband join with me in love to you.

Your loving student,
Janet T. Colman.
Edgartown,
Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
 
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