Accession: 717A.87.028
Editorial Title: Francis Thomas to Mary Baker Eddy, January 11, 1887
Author: Francis Thomas 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 11, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Francis Thomas on unlined paper from Troy, New York.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and Mary Baker Eddy.
Final Edits
Original Document
Click image to magnify
Full
Back
Close
View Document
View Image
717A.87.028
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
X

Copied document link to clipboard.

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 15
She is not qualified As Written: qua'lf'd for a teacher
⇉ Handshift:Francis ThomasTroy N. Y January 11/87
Rev Mary B. G Eddy

Having taken Some interest in Christian Science I would suggest that there is a grand opening here in Troy for someoneAs Written:some one who is Capable As Written: Cabable of teaching your Science there is a Mrs Clark here who is teaching but there seems to be much dissatisfaction after they have learned I hear that she has had nearly forty students and some of them wish to go higher and they find that they have not got a Cerstifcate or even a receipt for their money and if they had it would not be of any use to them but would have to learn over again and pay again for the Same lessons the above are the facts as near as I can learn If they are facts I think it will have a tendency to injure the Science and the sooner it is remedied the better

Yours
Mr F. Thomas
92 —4 st
Troy NY

P.S Will you please inform me by return mail whether a person learning the primary course of Mrs Clark and paying $100Editorial Note: $100 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024.# for same could enter your College and commence on the Normal Course

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyThey would be examined first and if they passed a good examination they could
717A.87.028
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
X

Copied document link to clipboard.

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 15
She is not qua'lf'd Corrected: qualified for a teacher
⇉ Handshift:Francis ThomasTroy N. Y January 11/87
Rev Mary B. G Eddy

Having taken Some interest in Christian Science I would suggest that there is a grand opening here in Troy for some oneCorrected:someone who is Cabable Corrected: Capable of teaching your Science there is a Mrs Clark here who is teaching but there seems to be much dissatisfaction after they have learned I hear that she has had nearly forty students and some of them wish to go higher and they find that they have not got a Cerstifcate or even a receipt for their money and if they had it would not be of any use to them but would have to learn over again and pay again for the Same lessons the above are the facts as near as I can learn If they are [?] Unclear or illegible  facts I think it will have a tendency to injure the Science and the sooner it is remedied the better

Yours
Mr F. Thomas
92 —4 st
Troy NY

P.S Will you please inform me by return mail whether a person learning the primary course of Mrs Clark and paying $100Editorial Note: $100 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024.# for same could enter your College and commence on the Normal Course

⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyThey [?] Unclear or illegible  would be examined first and if they [?] Unclear or illegible  passed a good examination they could
 
View Image
 

Back Text

Shown for development purposes only
There is what appears to be shorthand written here. $100 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024.