Accession: 667A.72.011
Editorial Title: M. Augusta Fairchild to Mary Baker Eddy, September 11, 1884
Author: M. Augusta Fairchild 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 11, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by M. Augusta Fairchild on lined paper from Hannibal, Missouri.
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Hannibal Missouri Sept 11./84
Mrs M.B.G. Eddy.
Boston.
My dear Mrs Eddy:—

Allow me to trespass upon your time and patience a few moments.

I have lately procured a copy of your book, “Science and Health.”Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.—

I am a doctor—graduated in New York in 1860. Have been in actual practice since. Do not give drugs. Belong to the Hygienic School, of which Dr TrallEditorial Note: Russell Thacher Trall was the founder. Was associated with him in practice. Came West sixteen years ago, because it seemed that I would die of consumptionEditorial Note: tuberculosis if I did not leave the seashore. Am in excellent health now.

Am fifty years old—unmarried—and in feeling about sixteen years of age. My life has been full of discipline:—

Last year I gave my business, not believing I could work longer. I had a Home for Invalid women—was very successful in practice but became very weary and longed for rest, and a home all my own—where no sick people lived.

So I came here and have built a beautiful home a mile out of town.

But friends here urged me to open an office—which at last I did—and am taxed three hours each morning.

I have lectured and written and labored all these years rather in reform work—

My little book “How to be well”Editorial Note: How to Be Well, or Common-Sense Medical Hygiene, S. R. Wells & Co.  New York (1879). has been finely received. I had a Health Journal until last year I gave it up.—I also occupy a chair in the Womens Medical College of St Louis.—

But I am sick of the way things are done.

I am convinced that for a long time I have been depending less and less on externals, and my best cures have been those made in a way approximating your methods.—

Your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. comes to me as a refreshing draught.—I am ready for your teachings. I long to be more and more useful as the years go by. I am a member of the New Church. Not at all governed by prejudice. It is my wish to take a course of lectures with you soon as my affairs will permit.

I am in comfortable circumstances—not rich—and just now all my income is expended—but by another year at least I will hope to find it practicable to go.

My acquaintance in the West extends over the whole territory—from Minnesota to Texas—and I have a good list of patrons in the East, also. I believe I can do great good, exceed all my former work—when I really understand your doctrines.—

Can I learn both to heal and to teach? Please know that I desire this knowledge not to serve myself, but to help others.

Yours very truly
M. Augusta Fairchild
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Hannibal Missouri Sept 11./84
Mrs M.B.G. Eddy.
Boston.
My dear Mrs Eddy:—

Allow me to trespass upon your time and patience a few moments.

I have lately procured a copy of your book, “Science and Health.”Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.—

I am a doctor—graduated in New York in 1860. Have been in actual practice since. Do not give drugs. Belong to the Hygienic School, of which Dr TrallEditorial Note: Russell Thacher Trall was the founder. Was associated with him in practice. Came West sixteen years ago, because it seemed that I would die of consumptionEditorial Note: tuberculosis if I did not leave the seashore. Am in excellent health now.

Am fifty years old—unmarried—and in feeling about sixteen years of age. My life has been full of discipline:—

Last year I gave my business, not believing I could work longer. I had a Home for Invalid women—was very successful in practice but became very weary and longed for rest, and a home all my own—where no sick people lived.

So I came here and have built a beautiful home a mile out of town.

But friends here urged me to open an office—which at last I did—and am taxed three hours each morning.

I have lectured and written and labored all these years rather in reform work—

My little book “How to be well”Editorial Note: How to Be Well, or Common-Sense Medical Hygiene, S. R. Wells & Co.  New York (1879). has been finely received. I had a Health Journal until last year I gave it up.—I also occupy a chair in the Womens Medical College of St Louis.—

But I am sick of the way things are done.

I am convinced that for a long time I have been depending less and less on externals, and my best cures have been those made in a way approximating your methods.—

Your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. comes to me as a refreshing draught.—I am ready for your teachings. I long to be more and more useful as the years go by. I am a member of the New Church. Not at all governed by prejudice. It is my wish to take a course of lectures with you soon as my affairs will permit.

I am in comfortable circumstances—not rich—and just now all my income is expended—but by another year at least I will hope to find it practicable to go.

My acquaintance in the West extends over the whole territory—from Minnesota to Texas—and I have a good list of patrons in the East, also. I believe I can do great good, exceed all my former work—when I really understand your doctrines.—

Can I learn both to heal and to teach? Please know that I desire this knowledge not to serve myself, but to help others.

Yours very truly
M. Augusta Fairchild
 
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Russell Thacher Trall tuberculosis How to Be Well, or Common-Sense Medical Hygiene, S. R. Wells & Co.  New York (1879). Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.