⇉ Handshift:Marietta L. B. StowSan FranciscoEditorial Note: San Francisco, California, Mch. 10 – 1886As Written:86.
1921 SacramentoAs Written:Sac'to – St.
The one bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy came todayAs Written:to-day. Suppose that the two are merged in the one. I regret that you allow so small a percentageAs Written:per centage that I cannot handle it. = I have a School of Industry for girls & have grown so poor carrying it without extraneous aid that I am having vacation for a time & personally working up the Mind Cure in this cityEditorial Note: San Francisco, California. I get a third off on books that I handle & forty & fifty percentAs Written:per cent. on magazines.
I wish you could let me handle it for two dollarsEditorial Note: $2.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $57.65 in 2021.. It should not cost, if you have the plates, more than 75cEditorial Note: $0.75 in 1886 is the equivalent of $21.62 in 2021. a copy, covered with leatherette, which Mr. Rand told me was about the price of best English As Written: Englush cloth; that would leave you a handsome marginAs Written:margine. Of course any arrangementAs Written:ar– made with me would be strictly confidential – & it would help, indirectly, some of the native-bornAs Written:native born daughters of this Golden StateEditorial Note: California to get an honest living. Seventy-five were sent to the Mag– asylum last May. The Chinese have literally As Written: litterly driven them to the wall. It is prostitution or starvation with some of them. = I have been trying to get money to enlarge my house & thus make an income, but failed because I am a Woman Suffragist & an out-&-outAs Written:out & out reformer. The greedy, groping As Written: groiping millionaires of this state have no place in their small souls for human pity for the toiling masses. One of them said to me a day or two ago, "O damn the girls! let them shirk for themselves". When I tell you that I am $4,000Editorial Note: $4,000.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $115,306.45 in 2021. poorer than I was in '80 you will see at what a disadvantage I have labored in San FranciscoAs Written:S. F. "But as much as ye have done it unto them,"Matt 25:31 ¶When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: Matt 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: Matt 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Matt 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: Matt 25:35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Matt 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Matt 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? Matt 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Matt 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? Matt 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. etc–
I now expect to soon open a class in Mind Cure, hoping in it to find the help (a $7,000Editorial Note: $7,000 in 1886 is the equivalent of $201,786.29 in 2021. loan) which I so much need. I was offered $12,000Editorial Note: $12,000 in 1886 is the equivalent of $345,919.36 in 2021. for my home & lot last summer, & yet the savings banks, which have a large dependence upon the earnings As Written: earnigs of women, will only loan $1,500Editorial Note: $1,500 in 1886 is the equivalent of $43,239.92 in 2021. – because As Written: becaue I am a radical woman. Were my husband living he could get the $7,000Editorial Note: $7,000 in 1886 is the equivalent of $201,786.29 in 2021.. "Men hate to deal with (strong-mindedAs Written:strong minded) women.
If you desire reference I refer you to Mess rs. Rand, Avery & Co, 117 Franklin– st, & Mr. Fleming 47, Franklin– st, BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. as regards my business ways.
C. A. Frye, of your office, inquires what to do with the "$1,00"Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $28.83 in 2021. of mine still in your hands. AnswerAs Written:Ans. Send me your paper, "Journal of Christ-Science," for one year. = Please accept thanks for the specimen copies of pamphlets & paper sent. = What is the lowest rates. at which you can furnish the paper to club with other papers or with magazines?
Truly Yours,
P. S. Everything I possess of worldly goods, or that I may eventually possess, I make in perpetuity to industry, for the benefit of women; &, add my work to the gift.