Accession: 661B.71.002
Editorial Title: Julia A. B. Davis to Mary Baker Eddy, December 21, 1883
Author: Julia A. B. Davis 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 21, 1883
Manuscript Description: Handwritten on lined paper by Julia A. B. Davis from Central Village, Westport, Massachusetts, with edits in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Editorial Note: This letter, with Eddy’s edits, was included in the testimonial section of Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 on pages 455-456Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896455:28I had been a nervous sufferer for nine years; had a
 belief of incurable disease of the heart, and was subject456:1to severe nervous prostration if I became the least weary.
 I was told that if I should read your books they would
456:3cure me. I commenced reading them: in ten days I was
 surprised to find myself overcoming my nervous spasms
 without the aid of medicine; and ever since then I have
456:6been improving, and I now can walk twenty miles without
 fatigue, and have been able to rise above all ailments.
 Mrs. Julia A. B. Davis,
456:9Central Village, Westport, Mass.. Davis is writing to thank Mary Baker Eddy for Davis' healing through Christian Science. She had been suffering from illness for the previous nine years and was healed after studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which was introduced to her by Delia S. Manley, a student of Eddy's with a healing practice in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Central Village Westport Dec 21st 1883
Dear Mrs Eddy,

I write to thank you for What, The Science you teach has done for me. I had been a nervous sufferer for nine years. had a belief of incurable disease of the heart, and was subject to severe nervous prostration if I became the least weary. I was told I should read your books they would cure me. I commenced reading them , in ten days I was surprised to find myself overcoming my nervous spasms without the aid of medicine. and ever since then I have been improving and I now can walk twenty miles without fatigue and have been able to rise above all ailments .

Dec 21 st 1883 Mrs Julia A. B. Davis. Central Village Westport Mass
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Central Village Westport Dec 21st 1883
Dear Mrs Eddy,

I write to thank you for What, The Science you teach has done for me. I had been a nervous sufferer for nine years. IDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy had a belief of incurable disease of the heart, and was subject to severe nervous prostration if I became the least weary. The [?] Unclear or illegible  middle of last July I heard that Mrs Manly was treating people by Christian Science at No 11 Maple st Fall River, I called on her to investigate the subject She told me that ifDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy I was told IInserted by: Mary Baker Eddy should readInserted by: Mary Baker Eddy studyDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy your books they would cure me. I commenced reading themInserted by: Mary Baker Eddy the studyDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy, in ten days I was surprised to find myself overcoming myInserted by: Mary Baker Eddy nervous spasms withDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy without the aid of medicine. andInserted by: Mary Baker Eddy ever since then I have been improving and I now can walk twenty miles without fatigue and have been able to rise above all ailments without the aid of medicineDeleted by: Mary Baker Eddy.

Yours truly
Dec 21 st 1883 Mrs Julia A. B. Davis. Central Village Westport Mass
 
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