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| Accession: | 593A.61.004 |
| Editorial Title: | S. A. Bombeck to Mary Baker Eddy, December 23, 1881 |
| Author: | S. A. Bombeck |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | December 23, 1881 |
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by S. A. Bombeck on lined paper from Cincinnati, Ralls County, Missouri.
Editorial Note: Bombeck has received a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health, and has found in it what she has been gravitating towards for the past twenty years.
She writes at length about some of her life experiences and encounters with various
forms of alternative medicine. She relates how some years ago the loss of her father
and many members of her community to disease made a strong impression on her. She
felt at the time that if women could ever become doctors, she would become one so
that she could find a way to cure people of severe illnesses. That led her to study
water-cure and other systems, subscribe to the Herald of Health, and to make various lifestyle changes. She also saved money from her teaching job
to attend the Dr. Russell Thacher Trall's Hydropathic and Hygienic Institute in New
York City. She mentions her challenges with sickness and poverty, which have been
particularly hard on her ambitious nature, but she asks Eddy to send her terms for
class instruction in Christian Science, as she feels this is exactly what she has
been looking for. She says that she has just turned fifty years old, and that her
husband is a few years older. They have a farm of forty acres with some livestock
and no children.
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