Accession: 664.71.059
Editorial Title: Alice E. Dewey to Mary Baker Eddy, August 16, 1884
Author: Alice E. Dewey 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: August 16, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Alice E. Dewey on embossed lined paper from Fort Ann, New York.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent CurriculumAs Written:Cur Aug 19
⇉ Handshift:Alice E. DeweyFort Ann
Aug 16th 1884
Mrs Eddy

I have been reading one of your Journals of Christian Science am quite taken up with it. Have seen your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I had a sister that has been an invalid several years and the physician said she had got to die

She went to see Mrs Silsbee at Smiths As Written: Smith Basin about two months ago and is almost entirely cured

I am anxious to learn the Christian Science

I am thirty three years of age and single

How long should I have to go to college. I see by the Journal that the tuition is $300Editorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017.. It did not say how long a lesson was

Of course I should not want to go if I thought I could not learn it. It would be money thrown away. If I could learn it I am anxious to go

Mrs Silsbee is doing wonders here. I have three sisters that go twice a week to see her and a cousin from California and they were all improving. You can ask Mrs Silsbee all about our family if you want any reference. Mother does not want me to go unless she really As Written: realy knows I can learn it.

Please let me know as soon as possible. Please tell me how long I will have to go and if I could heal before I left College

Yours
Mrs Alice E. Dewey
Fort Ann
Washington CountyAs Written:Co
New YorkAs Written:N.Y.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSent CurExpanded:Curriculum Aug 19
⇉ Handshift:Alice E. DeweyFort Ann
Aug 16th 1884
Mrs Eddy

I have been reading one of your Journals of Christian Science am quite taken up with it. Have seen your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I had a sister that has been an invalid several years and the physician said she had got to die

She went to see Mrs Silsbee at Smith Corrected: Smiths Basin about two months ago and is almost entirely cured

I am anxious to learn the Christian Science

I am thirty three years of age and single

How long should I have to go to college. I see by the Journal that the tuition is $300Editorial Note: $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017.. It did not say how long a lesson was

Of course I should not want to go if I thought I could not learn it. It would be money thrown away. If I could learn it I am anxious to go

Mrs Silsbee is doing wonders here. I have three sisters that go twice a week to see her and a cousin from California and they were all improving. You can ask Mrs Silsbee all about our family if you want any reference. Mother does not want me to go unless she realy Corrected: really knows I can learn it.

Please let me know as soon as possible. Please tell me how long I will have to go and if I could heal before I left College

Yours
Mrs Alice E. Dewey Dewey
Fort Ann
Washington CoExpanded:County
N.Y.Expanded:New York
 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. $300 in 1884 is the equivalent of $8,306.69 in 2017.