Accession: 716A.87.016
Editorial Title: Jennette P. Talbot to Mary Baker Eddy, January 17, 1884
Author: Jennette P. Talbot 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 17, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Jennette P. Talbot on embossed lined paper from Exeter, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Your favor of 15" instEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is received, I would like to take the liberty to further trouble you by asking if the terms for instruction ($300–Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $9,597.41 in 2024.) with a possibility of discount in case of indigence and peculiar fitness in applicant — include board, room, lights & fuel during the college course? Isn't there somethingAs Written:some thing a poor Student could do in your employ to earn her instruction fee which seems very high to a poor person for so short a period: Are Students assured of a good practice when well fitted or are they allowed to practice under your supervision for a Stated period after receiving diploma?

I ask thus particularly because I have a desire to enter if I can be assured of my fitness for the work and a pecuniary return.

Awaiting your reply

I am Yours very respectfully
Mrs Talbot
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans Jan 21
716A.87.016
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your favor of 15" instEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is received, I would like to take the liberty to further trouble you by asking if the terms for instruction ($300–Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $9,597.41 in 2024.) with a possibility of discount in case of indigence and peculiar fitness in applicant — include board, room, lights & fuel during the college course? Isn't there some thingCorrected:something a poor Student could do in your employ to earn her instruction fee which seems very high to a poor person for so short a period: Are Students assured of a good practice when well fitted or are they allowed to practice under your supervision for a Stated period after receiving diploma?

I ask [?] Unclear or illegible tha thus particularly because I have a desire to enter if I can be assured of my fitness for the work and a pecuniary return.

Awaiting your reply

I am Yours very respectfully
Mrs Talbot
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsExpanded:Answered Jan 21
 
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This letter is not extant. $300.00 in 1884 is the equivalent of $9,597.41 in 2024.