Accession: 678A.76.038
Editorial Title: Dora A. Hoffman to Mary Baker Eddy, December 2, 1885
Author: Dora A. Hoffman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: December 2, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Dora A. Hoffman on embossed lined paper from Richland, Pennsylvania.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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678A.76.038
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeDec 8

Last summer while visiting friends in Nebraska I heard for the first time of a Christian Scientist Mrs E. B. Fenn of OmahaEditorial Note: Omaha, Nebraska; and having been an invalid for several years; I went to her and was under treatment during the month of July and was very much benefited thereby; My improvement has created quite an interest in the neighborhood in which I reside; quite a number of persons have said if there were any ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists as near as Philadelphia (which is about 77 miles east from us) they would go for treatment; among the addresses in the journal I could see none nearer than New York; and thinking there might be some at Philadelphia or some other place not as distant as New YorkAs Written:N. Y. I wrote to Mrs S. H. Crosse almost three weeks ago but received no reply. And since several persons are very anxious to know I have had the presumption to make another attempt by writing to you If there are any as near as PhiladelphiaAs Written:Phila. you will greatly oblige me by sending their address. I am very much interested in the work, and hope I may sometimeAs Written:some time be enabled to attend your instructions.

Yours truly
Dora A. Hoffman
Richland Station
Lebanon Co.
PennsylvaniaAs Written:Penna.
678A.76.038
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeDec 8

Last summer while visiting friends in Nebraska I heard for the first time of a Christian Scientist Mrs E. B. Fenn of OmahaEditorial Note: Omaha, Nebraska; and having been an invalid for several years; I went to her and was under treatment during the month of July and was very much benefited thereby; My improvement has created quite an interest in the neighborhood in which I reside; quite a number of persons have said if there were any ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists as near as Philadelphia (which is about 77 miles east from us) they would go for treatment; among the addresses in the journal I could see none nearer than New York; and thinking there might be some at Philadelphia or some other place not as distant as N. Y.Expanded:New York I wrote to Mrs S. H. Crosse almost three weeks ago but received no reply. And since several persons are very anxious to know I have had the presumption to make another attempt by writing to you If there are any as near as Phila.Expanded:Philadelphia you will greatly oblige me by sending their address. I am very much interested in the work, and hope I may some timeCorrected:sometime be enabled to attend your instructions.

Yours truly
Dora A. Hoffman
Richland Station
Lebanon Co.
Penna.Expanded:Pennsylvania
 
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