Accession: 665B.72.044
Editorial Title: Mrs. D. P. Ehrman to Mary Baker Eddy, August 3, 1884
Author: Mrs. D. P. Ehrman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 3, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mrs. D. P. Ehrman on lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
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Dear Madam

Copy of your Journal duly received for which I thank you. Please commence with August Number.

I shall be able in a short time to send for a number of other copies also several sets of your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. – Will it be necessary according to your vol’sAs Written:volumes for Clubs to send the names in all at one time as shall be obliged to send for them as the parties can get the money, as a number are sick and needy? –

I should be pleased to explain to you my interest in your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and what I have accomplished through it and also to ask your advice, feeling & knowing it is a part of your work to accomplish all the good you can

In the first place I was very much interested in your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, I have studied your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. faithfully and prayerfully and through them have rec’dAs Written:received understanding – many things which have always perplexed me have been made perfectly clear. My faith in God and healing through him has been increased – I could say volumes but will not take up your precious time. Suffice it to say I consider myself As Written: my self cured. I then commenced treatment in my own family and they are also such, This being known, there were others who came to me, they were poor and suffering and had no means of paying those who were practicing for money. I treated them without remuneration and are still doing so. I have relieved and feel that I can cure them as well as my own family – I feel it my duty to do the best I can for all who come. Now others have asked for treatment who are able to pay – feeling that I can be successful in keeping them I wish to ask your advice before going further in this matter, as I have not taken a regular course with you – only through your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. & journals, - I am particular in asking this and hope you will give me an Early reply, as I am almost daily asked for help from some source, I am strictly conscientious As Written: concientious in this matter and wish to continue doing all the good I can but do not wish to call my treatment “Mrs Edy’s Mind Cure” if you should find objections, for the reason I have not taken a course of instruction in your class… I should have been most happy to do so from the first but have not been financially so situated that I could – Neither do I feel I can turn poor appearing humanity from my door if I can help them, and yet I am not so situated as to give my time & rates to those who are able to pay – what would you advise? –

Truthfully Yours
Mrs. D. P. Ehrman
538 West Lake St.
665B.72.044
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Madam

Copy of your Journal duly received for which I thank you. Please commence with August Number.

I shall be able in a short time to send for a number of other copies also several sets of your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. – Will it be necessary according to your volumesExpanded:vol’s for Clubs to send the names in all at one time as shall be obliged to send for them as the parties can get the money, as a number are sick and needy? –

I should be pleased to explain to you my interest in your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and what I have accomplished through it and also to ask your advice, feeling & knowing it is a part of your work to accomplish all the good you can

In the first place I was very much interested in your scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, I have studied your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. faithfully and prayerfully and through them have receivedExpanded:rec’d understanding – many things which have always perplexed me have been made perfectly clear. My faith in God and healing through him has been increased – I could say volumes but will not take up your precious time. Suffice it to say I consider my self Corrected: myself cured. I then commenced treatment in my own family and they are also such, This being known, there were others who came to me, they were poor and suffering and had no means of paying those who were practicing for money. I treated them without remuneration and are still doing so. I have relieved and feel that I can cure them as well as my own family – I feel it my duty to do the best I can for all who come. Now others have asked for treatment who are able to pay – feeling that I can be successful in keeping them I wish to ask your advice before going further in this matter, as I have not taken a regular course with you – only through your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. & journals, - I am particular in asking this and hope you will give me an Early reply, as I am almost daily asked for help from some source, I am strictly concientious Corrected: conscientious in this matter and wish to continue doing all the good I can but do not wish to call my treatment “Mrs Edy’s Mind Cure” if you should find objections, for the reason I have not taken a course of instruction in your class… I should have been most happy to do so from the first but have not been financially so situated that I could – Neither do I feel I can turn poor appearing humanity from my door if I can help them, and yet I am not so situated as to give my time & rates to those who are able to pay – what would you advise? –

Truthfully Yours
Mrs. D. P. Ehrman
538 West Lake St.
 
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