Accession: 482.55.013
Editorial Title: Sarah F. Bickford to Mary Baker Eddy, June 30, 1884
Author: Sarah F. Bickford 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: June 30, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sarah F. Bickford on lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans July 4
⇉ Handshift:Sarah F. BickfordChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois June 30th 1884
My dear Mrs Eddy

I am getting along nicely better than when I wrote you before. think you must have helped me. to me the cases I now have are hard for me to control I think perhaps I had a little fear myself and yet my thought was with me all the time you can heal them perhaps my anxiety to do well, and demonstrate what you had taught me prevented me from doing as well as ought. the lady I referred to when I wrote you is a great deal better and has very much more confidence in me and all the family too. the case of varicoseAs Written:varacose veins I have not commenced. yet.

I have scarcely seen any of the class since you leftEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught a class in Chicago in May 1884. but I hear nearly all are teaching I am hoping to send you 3 perhaps 4 students in the fall. I shall not teach for to me you are the only teacher. I’m very glad indeed I studied for my own personal benefit if no other.

I will not weary you with my long writing but hope I shall hear from you whenever you can spare the time to write

Ever your friend
Sarah F. Bickford
134 N. State StreetAs Written:st
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsExpanded:Answered July 4
⇉ Handshift:Sarah F. BickfordChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois June 30th 1884
My dear Mrs Eddy

I am getting along nicely better than when I wrote you before. think you must have helped me. to me the cases I now have are hard for me to control I think perhaps I had a little fear myself and yet my thought was with me all the time you can heal them perhaps my anxiety to do well, and to help the I demonstrate what you had taught me prevented me from doing as well as ought. the lady I referred to when I wrote you is a great deal better and has very much more confidence in me and all the family too. the case of varacoseCorrected:varicose veins I have not commenced. yet.

I have scarcely seen any of the class since you leftEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught a class in Chicago in May 1884. but I hear nearly all are teaching I am hoping to send you 3 perhaps 4 students by in the fall. I shall not teach for to me you are the only teacher. I’m very glad indeed I studied for my own personal benefit if no other.

I will not weary you with my long writing but hope I shall hear from you whenever you can spare the time to write

Ever your friend
Sarah F. Bickford
134 N. State stExpanded:Street
 
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