Please pardon the liberty I take by thus addressing you; and also the request (which may seem to you a bold one) I am about to make. I am a student of one of your students, but have always felt such a desire to meet, and learn of you. I have studied your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and words cannot express their value to me. Thus for it has seemed impossible As Written: imposible for me to even see you, but now fortune smiles on me a little. and if you, my dear Mrs Eddy can find it possible to add your blessing, I shall be happy indeed.

Next month my daughter is going to enter the New England Conservatory of Music, in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and it is decided that I am to accompany her there. And you are in Boston. Thus far good fortune smiles, but no farther, and I must leave the rest to you. I have not present means more than sufficient to defray my necessary expenses while in Boston, but I very much wish to join your class in Christian Science, so much so that I have forced myself to ask a great favor which is not usual for me to do.

If you will receive me, you will lose nothing by your kindness. It may be a year, possibly two, before I can remit to you the full amount for value received; but it will be sure. My home is in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, where I shall return after leaving Boston.

Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience, I hope you may be able to look upon me with favor, for I feel that "now is the day of my salvation."II Cor 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. II Cor 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)