I have received your work Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy , & feel that I have found that to which I have been impelled, or gravitating towards for Twenty years, since those days when I listened to Dr. R. T. Trall's Lectures on Hygienic Medication at 15. Laight Street, New-YorkCorrected:New York, from 60. to 61. My Father & sevearal members of our Family died off in rapid succession, as many others in our community about the same time, made a lasting impression on my mind at that time. I thought that ist was strange that Doctors that people trusted so much could not cure nothing bad, or severe, for that thewas main thing needed, slight sickness would recover without Doctors. I told my Mother then that if ever [?] Unclear or illegible  women were Doctors I hoped to be one for then I would see what was the matter when so many of us were laid away in the graveyard After a while a scrap of the Old Water-Cure Journal came from a city, to my hand, on that Scrap was its price &c., I subscibed Corrected: subscribed for it, as long as it was publis [?] Unclear or illegible hed, & have taken the Hearald of Health, a greater part of time since. I read to my Old Mother what was on that Scrap , the fact that there was really a way to treat sickness without swallowing a particle drugs, she wondered if possible, it was just what we [?] Unclear or illegible wished to know & was easy to learn, we made a great change in our living, we took on new thoughtss Corrected: thoughts as f well as feelings, my Mother was my only friend in the new cause for a long time. I then contrived to Teaech District School, & made the necessary means. I told my Mother that I had been busy getting all the knowledge before handCorrected:beforehand that I could well, that I was ready to go to Dr. Trall's in New York, to learn to be a Doctor. She had never known a woman to undertake so much. I said that God made & governs us & I see it useless to fear.. I have never made compromise with error in treating Disease, not once. I have finally learned by observation that bathing, even was not needed to cure the sick, & have talked to & explained bad feelings, symptoms, & causes of sickness, & cheered up, & encouraged sick people, & see have seen cases recover without further touching their bodies. I have used Meteaphysical, talk to the sick with being aware of it. I have felt that there cold could be a better System than Hygieneic. I have been in my reading looking for it I saw a notice of Dr. Newton's works Modern BethesdaEditorial Note: The Modern Bethesda, or, The Gift of Healing Restored. Being Some Account of the Life and Labors of Dr. J.R. Newton [James Rogers Newton], Healer., by Alonzo Eliot Newton. This book was published in 1879. convinced me of something better beyond, & at last I find that Metephysical Corrected: Metaphysical Healing is indeed wahat my Soul has sighed after so long.

Will you please send me terms to let me see if ever I could go & get the benefit of a course of instruction.

I wish that it was myself that had received gratuitous [?] Unclear or illegible  instruction at your hand , it would have been "the bread cast upon the waters & returned after a reasonable timeEccl 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. My tedious story of sickness & experience with poverty, so hard for an ambitious nature to bear, it Corrected: is that of thousands of Health, & other Reformers.

I hope that you will not be annoyed by my blunders write in too much haste I am just turned in fifty years my Husband several years older we own a farm of only forty acres, some little live stockCorrected:livestock, & no children. Please let me have an answer soon, & oblige,