Accession: 723A.89.022
Editorial Title: Wallace V. Wheeler to Mary Baker Eddy, May 25, 1885
Author: Wallace V. Wheeler 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: May 25, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Wallace V. Wheeler on printed stationery of Bridgeford & Co., from Louisville, Kentucky.
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Louisville, KentuckyAs Written:Ky. May 25 1885
Mrs. Mary G B Eddy
Boston. MassachusettsAs Written:Mass.
Dear Madam.

Please pardon the liberty I take in addressing you but after reading in the "Courier Journal of this place, an accountEditorial Note: The May 6, 1885, issue of the Courier-Journal included an article entitled “Is it Will Power: A Learned Dissertation on Mind Cures, Faith Cures or Christian Science.” It is possible that this is the article that Wheeler read. of your powers and cares. I am prompted to write you and ask for information about treating a patient at a distance, what you require of him whether or not he must be in sympathy and harmony with the healer at a certain time.

I am a clerk in this city and have been under the treatment of a Physician for six months and grow no better, my trouble so says the doctor is Liver and stomach disorders, and I take medicine continually though still able to attend to my duties at my office. I am unfit for anything that require much strengthAs Written:strengh. Now what I beg leave to ask is this. Will you kindly advise me what to do for I have implicit faith in your As Written: you powers and believing you to be a God-favoredAs Written:god favored woman ready and willing to advise spiritually As Written: spiritualy as well as physicallyAs Written:phisicaly.

I am Dear Madam.
Your most obedient servant,
Wallace. V. Wheeler,
Louisville.
KentuckyAs Written:Ky.
With Bridgeford & Co.

P.S. If your time is too much taken up with you duties to answer this please hand this to some of your friends who will let me hear from them at early date.

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Louisville, Ky.Expanded:Kentucky May 25 1885
Mrs. Mary G B Eddy
Boston. Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts
Dear Madam.

Please pardon the liberty I take in addressing you but after reading in the "Courier Journal of this place, an accountEditorial Note: The May 6, 1885, issue of the Courier-Journal included an article entitled “Is it Will Power: A Learned Dissertation on Mind Cures, Faith Cures or Christian Science.” It is possible that this is the article that Wheeler read. of your powers and cares. I am prompted to write you and ask for information about treating a patient at a distance, what you require of him whether or not he must be in sympathy and harmony with the healer at a certain time.

I am a clerk in this city and have been under the treatment of a Physician for six months and grow no better, my trouble so says the doctor is Liver and stomach disorders, and I take medicine continually though still able to attend to my duties at my office. I am unfit for anything that require much strenghCorrected:strength. Now what I beg leave to ask is this. Will you kindly advise me what to do for I have implicit faith in you Corrected: your powers and believing you to be a god favoredCorrected:God-favored woman ready and willing to advise spiritualy Corrected: spiritually as well as phisicalyCorrected:physically.

I am Dear Madam.
Your most obedient servant,
Wallace. V. Wheeler,
Louisville.
Ky.Expanded:Kentucky
With Bridgeford & Co.

P.S. If your time is too much taken up with you duties to answer this please hand this to some of your friends who will let me hear from them at early date.

 
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The May 6, 1885, issue of the Courier-Journal included an article entitled “Is it Will Power: A Learned Dissertation on Mind Cures, Faith Cures or Christian Science.” It is possible that this is the article that Wheeler read.