Accession: 661B.71.042
Editorial Title: Elisha Dayton to Mary Baker Eddy, November 18, 1883
Author: Elisha Dayton 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: November 18, 1883
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Elisha Dayton on embossed lined paper from Marengo, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnswerAs Written:Ans. in Feb numberAs Written:no.
⇉ Handshift:Elisha DaytonMarengo IllinoisAs Written:Ill Nov 18th 1883.
Mrs. Eddy.

Will you be kind enough to answer a stranger a few questions. I have succeeded in purchasing your two volumesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. have been greatly interested & instructed. I desire to know if I am a close student if I can possibly attain your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science? the bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy seems to lay down the rules As Written: rueles clearly It is quite impossible for me to go to ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois & pay a teacher $200Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $5,124.98 in 2020. for learning. There is one point in your work that is not quite clear to me. If as you state all that is mortal is a dream an error & not God-madeAs Written:God made, I wish to inquire if our capacity for formulating a dream is not back of all of this & is not the capacity real? if real it is God-madeAs Written:God made. & if God-madeAs Written:God made can it be error? it seems to me logical to presume that a something that can dream. must have a reality back of it & if the reality produces the dream can the dream be wrong or sinful.

Please reply to these brief questionsEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s reply to these questions appeared on page 3 of the February 2, 1884 issue of the Journal of Christian Science. An edited version later appeared on pages 49 and 50 of Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896. & oblige a seeker after Truth

E. Dayton.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAns.Expanded:Answer Jan in Feb no.Expanded:number
⇉ Handshift:Elisha DaytonMarengo IllExpanded:Illinois Nov 18th 1883.
Mrs. Eddy.

Will you be kind enough to answer a stranger a few questions. I have succeeded in purchasing your two volumesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. have been greatly interested & instructed. I desire to know if I am a close student if I can possibly attain your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science? the bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy seems to lay down the rueles Corrected: rules clearly It is quite impossible for me to go to ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois & pay a teacher $200Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $5,124.98 in 2020. for learning. There is one point in your work that is not quite clear to me. If as you state all that is mortal is a dream e an error & not God madeCorrected:God-made, I wish to inquire if our capacity for formulating a dream is not back of all of this & is not the capacity real? if real it is God madeCorrected:God-made. & if God madeCorrected:God-made can it be error? it seems to toAs Written:to me logical to presume that a something that can dream. must have a reality back of it & if the reality produces the dream can the dream be wrong or sinful.

Please reply to these brief questionsEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy’s reply to these questions appeared on page 3 of the February 2, 1884 issue of the Journal of Christian Science. An edited version later appeared on pages 49 and 50 of Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896. & oblige a seeker after Truth

E. Dayton.
 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Chicago, Illinois $200.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $5,124.98 in 2020. Mary Baker Eddy’s reply to these questions appeared on page 3 of the February 2, 1884 issue of the Journal of Christian Science. An edited version later appeared on pages 49 and 50 of Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896.