Fannie M. Silsbee to Mary Baker Eddy, February 1, 1884

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506.56.012

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Fannie M. Silsbee

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Mary Baker Eddy

Date:

February 1, 1884

Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Fannie M. Silsbee on embossed lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.

Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.

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Chicago 2.. 1st/84

Mrs Eddy
Dear Madam.

Your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was gladly receivedAs Written:recd and in reply will say, I was pleased to know that there was more of a surety in your work or rather teaching than I had known before. Am very sorry that I did not know the right way at first & yet, perhaps there is much good to come yet of all this; I was not at all pleased at first when I knew your next class would not be formed soon and it was a hard struggle for me to consent to study with Dr Sawyer. I feel as though it would have been much better for me to have gone when they did. I am striving to do the very best that I know how. I shall study with him, but want to join your next class, as I am now situated my hands are tied. I can do nothing. I came from MilwaukeeEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin a week ago Monday and do not want to go back till Drs Class forms. I am anxious to get to work for several reasons, my expenses are going on, and I doing nothing to help meet them. I have had several applications that I could not accept, of new patients & some that I have been treating I would like to do for now. There are some things I wish to tell you that I cannot write.

as soon as I am armed & fully equiped with truth - I shall be ready for the battle & as long as I know that God is the Captain I shall never fear to obey the Command, or face the foe.

I see a change in both Dr & Mrs Sawyer since their return, & feel that in your teaching you surely heal both so-calledAs Written:so called mind & body. please let me know in time to make preparation As Written: preperation to go to you.

I have yet much to undo & do over as it should be done, & shall surely be glad when I can commence my work [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy AnswerAs Written:Ans. [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Fannie M. Silsbee I want to do whatever is for the best, & if good is to be the outcome of all this trial, I am glad that I can be one of the workers to that end & aim.

very respectfully yours.

Mrs Fannie M. Silsbee
809. Grand Ave
Milwaukee
Wis.—

506.56.012

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Chicago 2.. 1st/84

Mrs Eddy
Dear Madam.

Your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was gladly recdExpanded:received and in reply will say, I was pleased to know that there was more of a surety in your work or rather teaching than I had known before. Am very sorry that I did not know the right way at first & yet, perhaps there is much good to come yet of all this; I was not at all pleased at first when I knew your next class would not be formed soon and it was a hard struggle for me to consent to study with Dr Sawyer. I feel as though it would have been much better for me to have gone when they did. I am striving to do the very best that I know how. I shall study with him, but want to join your next class, as I am now situated my hands are tied. I can do nothing. I came from MilwaukeeEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin a week ago Monday and do not want to go back till Drs Class forms. I am anxious to get to work for several reasons, my expenses are going on, and I doing nothing to help meet them. I have had several applications that I could not accept, of new patients & some that I have been treating I would like to do for now. There are some things I wish to tell you that I cannot write.

as soon as I am armed & fully equiped with truth - I shall be ready for the battle & as long as I know that God is the Captain I shall never fear to obey the Command, or face the foe.

I see a change in both Dr & Mrs Sawyer since their return, & feel that in your teaching your surely heal both so calledCorrected:so-called mind & body. please let me know in time to make preperation Corrected: preparation to go to you.

I have yet much to undo & do over as it should be done, & shall surely be glad when I can commence my work [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Ans.Expanded:Answer [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Fannie M. Silsbee I want to do whatever is for the best, & if good is to be the outcome of all this trial, I am glad that I can be one of the workers to that end & aim.

very respectfully yours.

Mrs Fannie M. Silsbee
809. Grand Ave
Milwaukee
Wis.—

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