Accession: 674B.74.044
Editorial Title: Carrie B. Hammond to Mary Baker Eddy, December 23, 1885
Author: Carrie B. Hammond 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: December 23, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Carrie B. Hammond on lined paper from Chatham, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Editorial Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 26
⇉ Handshift:Carrie B. HammondChathamEditorial Note: Chatham, Massachusetts Dec 23d 1885.
Mrs Eddy.

About a year ago I was in feeble health and had been so for two years, with spinal trouble, I had tried everythingAs Written:every thing that I knew of and at last I got the address of Mrs M. A. Poole then in SkowheganAs Written:Sknowhegan. MaineAs Written:Me now in South Boston and wrote to her and had her to treat me in the Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. way & therebyAs Written:there by recovered my health and from that time I have been very much interested in this great truth of Christian Science. I have your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and read in them a great deal also the Journal. I thought I would write to you and see what your lowest terms would be and how many courses it would be necessary to take. I don’t know as I shall ever be able to come to your college but if there is any possible way I want to come I feel that I could do a great deal of good if I could only be a Christian ScientistAs Written:C. S. but I am afraid I shall not be able to as I am only a poor girl but I want to be so much that I thought I would write and see if it would ever be possible to get money enough to come I thought if I knew I would have it to hope for. If I could come any way I should want to come as soon as possible As Written: possibl please write as soon as you can and what your lowest terms would be as I am very anxious to know.

Sincerely Yours.
Carrie Hammond
Chatham
MassachusettsAs Written:Mass
P. O. Box 142.
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⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Editorial Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 26
⇉ Handshift:Carrie B. HammondChathamEditorial Note: Chatham, Massachusetts Dec 23d 1885.
Mrs Eddy.

About a year ago I was in feeble health and had been so for two years, with spinal trouble, I had tried every thingCorrected:everything that I knew of and at last I got the address of Mrs M. A. Poole then in SknowheganExpanded:Skowhegan. MeExpanded:Maine now in South Boston and wrote to her and had her to treat me in the C. S.Expanded:Christian Science way & there byCorrected:thereby recovered [?] Unclear or illegible  my health and from that time I have been very much interested in this great truth of Christian Science. I have your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy m and read in them a great deal also the Journal. I thought I would write to you and see what your lowest terms would be and how many courses it would be necessary to take. I don’t know as I shall ever be able to come to your college but if there is any possible way I want to come I feel that I could do a great deal of good if I could only be a C. S.Expanded:Christian Scientist but I am afraid I shall not be able to as I am only a poor girl but I want to be so much that I thought I would write and see if it would ever be possible to get money enough to come I thought if I knew I would have it to hope for. If I could come any way I should want to come as soon as possibl Corrected: possible please write as soon as you can and what you your lowest terms would be as I am very anxious to know.

Sincerely Yours.
Carrie Hammond
Chatham
MassExpanded:Massachusetts
P. O. Box 142.
 
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