Accession: 402.51.031
Editorial Title: Albert B. Dorman to Mary Baker Eddy, February 24, 1885
Author: Albert B. Dorman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: February 24, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Albert B. Dorman on lined paper from Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Worcester, MassachusettsAs Written:Mass., Feb. 24, ’85,
My dear Teacher,

I have not time to write much this time and so much less you will have to read, Thought I would let you know that I am home safe and at work. I send you enclosed circular, copy of the articleEditorial Note: This is likely the article “What is Christian Science?” which was published in the February 14, 1885, issue of the Boston Traveller and then in the March 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the TravellerEditorial Note: Boston Traveller. I am going to use them freely among my patients and friends, and have sent them to nearly every ScientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist with price for same by mail postpaid. 10.500 costs me just 13.00Editorial Note: $13.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $343.84 in 2019. then As Written: than there is my time, envelopes, stamps, &c., and the mail on a M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. is 35¢Editorial Note: $0.35 in 1885 is the equivalent of $9.26 in 2019. they cost me about $1.75Editorial Note: $1.75 in 1885 is the equivalent of $46.29 in 2019. for M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. including postage, and I charge 25¢Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019. for time in putting up and sending away, and as I get them in large lot I furnish them all delivered for less than one could go and get a M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. I put them just as low as I could and get out of it. I hope they will see the need of doing work of this kind but I don’t As Written: dont know as they will order them at all.

Tell Mrs. Hopkins if she should put it in the next Journal the article from the TravellerEditorial Note: Boston Traveller it might be well to announce at the bottom, that the article is in circular form and for sale, but I hardly think it would be necessary so long as I am sending them out to all the Scientists who are mentioned in the papers Every Scientist should feel it his duty to work in this direction and enlighten the people in regard to the true healer. If we don’t As Written: dont it will be less liable to grow, and more liable to go down and be lost sight of again.

I was very much interested in the last lesson in the normal course, and I am thinking if I had had the last lesson first, the rest would have been more benefit. I never saw Mortal Mind in regard to Mesmerism so clearly before. I would liked to of heard the whole class in another lesson on the same subject. I needed it, for either I am to blame or someone else in getting off the Watch and letting that creep in that I have no use for That “sense of Wrong” spoken of is voluble As Written: voluoble to me, and all as well of course, but I need to be on the Watch most of the time, or I am to much like myself, as Mortal. Tell brother Frye I will see to forwarding the balance of pay due you which I took to pay towards the church in a few days, perhaps not until next week. I am little short just now, but will make it up very soon. I wanted to make out $50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1,322.46 in 2019. for the church that day, and I could not in any other way, than to use the 30.00Editorial Note: $30.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $793.48 in 2019. due you, but I will see to it with as little delay as possible.

Now I will close and I have written more than I had any idea of.

Love to all Brothers and Sisters, not forgetting yourself, I am your affectionate Student
Albert B. Dorman.
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Worcester, Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts, Feb. 24, ’85,
My dear Teacher,

I have not time to write much this time and so much less you will have to read, Thought I would let you know that I am home safe and at work. I send you enclosed circular, copy of the articleEditorial Note: This is likely the article “What is Christian Science?” which was published in the February 14, 1885, issue of the Boston Traveller and then in the March 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the TravellerEditorial Note: Boston Traveller. I am going to use them freely among my patients and friends, and have sent them to nearly every ScientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist with price for same by mail postpaid. 10.500 costs me just 13.00Editorial Note: $13.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $343.84 in 2019. than Corrected: then there is my time, envelopes, stamps, &c., and the mail on a M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. is 35¢Editorial Note: $0.35 in 1885 is the equivalent of $9.26 in 2019. they cost me about $1.75Editorial Note: $1.75 in 1885 is the equivalent of $46.29 in 2019. for M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. including postage, and I charge 25¢Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019. for time in putting up and sending away, and as I get them in large lot I furnish them all delivered for less than one could go and get a M.Editorial Note: M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. I put them just as low as I could and get out of it. I hope they will see the need of doing work of this kind but I dont Corrected: don’t know as they will order them at all.

Tell Mrs. Hopkins if she should put it in the next Journal the article from the TravellerEditorial Note: Boston Traveller it might be well to announce at the bottom, that the article is in circular form and for sale, but I hardly think it would be necessary so long as I am sending them out to all the Scientists who are mentioned in the papers Every Scientist should feel it his duty to work in this direction and enlighten the people in regard to the true healer. If we dont Corrected: don’t it will be less liable to grow, and more liable to go down and be lost sight of again.

I was very much interested in the last lesson in the normal course, and I am thinking if I had had the last lesson first, the rest would have been more benefit. I never saw Mortal Mind in regard to Mesmerism so clearly before. I would liked to of heard the whole class in another lesson on the same subject. I needed it, for either I am to blame or someone else in getting off the Watch and letting that creep in that I have no use for That “sense of Wrong” spoken of is voluoble Corrected: voluble to me, and all as well of course, but I need to be on the Watch most of the time, or I am to much like myself, as Mortal. Tell brother Frye I will see to forwarding the balance of pay due you which I took to pay towards the church in a few days, perhaps not until next week. I am little short just now, but will make it up very soon. I wanted to make out $50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1,322.46 in 2019. for the church that day, and I could not in any other way, than to use the 30.00Editorial Note: $30.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $793.48 in 2019. due you, but I will see to it with as little delay as possible.

Now I will close and I have written more than I had any idea of.

Love to all Brothers and Sisters, not forgetting yourself, I am your affectionate Student
Albert B. Dorman.
 
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This is likely the article “What is Christian Science?” which was published in the February 14, 1885, issue of the Boston Traveller and then in the March 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Boston Traveller Christian Scientist $13.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $343.84 in 2019. M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. $0.35 in 1885 is the equivalent of $9.26 in 2019. $1.75 in 1885 is the equivalent of $46.29 in 2019. M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019. M. seems to be an abbreviation for 1,000 copies. Boston Traveller $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1,322.46 in 2019. $30.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $793.48 in 2019.