Pardon me for writeing Corrected: writing you I have felt impelled to do so. There are four of us in the family Father who is a Sufferer from rheumatism a brother who is subject to fits Mother and myself. some little time ago I bought your books Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy hopeing Corrected: hoping to get some help from them for I am so tired of sickness and drugs and I think they have been a benefit to me but now I am greatly afflicted Mother the only well one of the family was taken three weeks ago to dayCorrected:today with pain in her right leg above and around the knee I did not think it was any thingCorrected:anything serious and we went to Church in the afternoon when we come home she was taken very much worse, he [?] Unclear or illegible r foot seemed cold and she said it felt dead, her great toe and the two next ones looked as tho'Expanded:though they were dead, we did everything we could and in a day or two took her to a Dr he said it was a clot of blood from the heart in the main artery pluging Corrected: plugging it so as to stop circulation and that there is no hope for her, that the foot will mortify

the foot does not look dead now but is cold most of the time and numb, and has spells of paining her very much and it seemes Corrected: seems as tho'Expanded:though the pain increases she is very nervous and restless. she is nearly seventy fourCorrected:seventy-four years old has never been sick much or taken much medicine but has had one spell of Sciatica reheumatism she complains of her back being very cold across the small of her back. To dayCorrected:Today as she seemed worse it come to me to write you to ask you if you thought Christian Science could reach her case. we live on a farm and I need her so much for company for sympathy it seems. so I could not give her up. her foot seems to have considerable color in it now. In my distress I come to you to ask if you think there is any help. I shall be so greateful if you will write me just a line.