Enclosed find 25cEditorial Note: $.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.60 in 2019. in Stamps Please send the 17 pg pamphlet “Christian healing” advertisedAs Written:adv. in 2nd volumeAs Written:vol. of your Science & healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I Sent to an acquaintance in Chicago who is a “disciple” of yours for your 2 volumesAs Written:vols. science & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. feeling a deep interest in the Matter, I have read what there was of the first VolumeAs Written:Vol., & thoughAs Written:tho. aware that I have hardly reached the a b c of Metaphysics, I agree with B. A. Atkinson in his letter on Page 267, where he says “Her teachings are abstract & intricate at first” etc. – I think I have got along as far as the first adjective, “abstract”. I have set out with a determination to acquaint myself with the principles if I can comprehend it

I found the first volumeAs Written:vol. incomplete Pages 141 to 164 are duplicated & 165 to 188 inclusiveAs Written:inc. omitted, as the book had to go to you eventually for correction I thought it best & cheapest to send directly to you & if you will be so kind as to exchange for a perfect Copy I will feel much obliged– You will please put the metal corner protectors you find on the returned volumeAs Written:vol. on the new one on its return – I find the “science”Editorial Note: Christian Science is growing very rapidly here in the West & I hope to be able to give a better account of it after more study. There seems to be very much that to me is contradictory & also diametrically opposite to all natural philosophy that we of the “earth earthy” are familiar with, but a more intimate knowledge may dispel the clouds