Accession: 482.55.014
Editorial Title: Sarah F. Bickford to Mary Baker Eddy, September 22, 1884
Author: Sarah F. Bickford 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 22, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sarah F. Bickford on lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
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My dear Mrs Eddy

A lady friend, to whom I sold the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy., early in the summer, and is very much interested in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and apparently an intelligent women sent a line to me last week “ Did I think Mrs Eddy would give her instruction for any less then three hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017.” as she wished very much to go to Boston and attend a courseAs Written:couse of lectures under your instruction at the College.

She wanted me to instruct her in the summer I told her I was not far enough advanced to teach, and I also thought when she felt like studying she had better go to the College.

I think her a woman of limited means, and perhaps she has heard that you take students for less thanAs Written:then the three hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017..

Her first thought was to go to Mrs Courson. I advised her not to but to wait till she could go to you. I think she would like to commence with the next class if there is time.

I am gettingAs Written:geting along very well in healing, although I get discouraged sometimes and feel that perhaps I may have made a mistake in taking up ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science but I shall persevere and try my best I believe in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science more thanAs Written:then I ever did the more I study the less I know or just beginning to learn

EverAs Written:Eve yoursAs Written:yous
Sarah F. Bickford
134 N Hale St
482.55.014
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Mrs Eddy

A lady friend, to whom I sold the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy., early in the summer, and is very much interested in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and apparently an intelligent women sent a line to me last week “I Did I think Mrs Eddy would give her instruction for any less then three hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017.” as she wished very much to go to Boston and attend a couseCorrected:course of lectures under your instruction at the College.

She wanted me to instruct her in the summer I told her I was not far enough advanced to teach, and I also thought when she felt like studying she had better go to the College.

I think her a woman of limited means, and perhaps she has heard that you give a deduction take students for less thenCorrected:than the three hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017..

Her first thought was to go to Mrs Courson. I advised her not to but to wait till she could go to you. I think she would like to commence with the next class if there is time.

I am getingCorrected:getting along very well in healing, although I get discouraged sometimes and feel that perhaps I may have made a mistake in taking up ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science but I shall persevere and try my best I believe in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science more thenCorrected:than I ever did the more I study the less I know or just beginning to learn

EveCorrected:Ever yousCorrected:yours
Sarah F. Bickford
134 N Hale St
 
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