Accession: 941.91.072
Editorial Title: Abby Colburn to Mary Baker Eddy, 1886
Author: Abby Colburn 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: 1886 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Abby Colburn on lined paper from Brattleboro, Vermont.
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941.91.072
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Enclosed find for $3.35, (3.00+.25+10)Editorial Note: $3.35 in 1886 is the equivalent of $111.73 in 2024. for your new edition Science & Health also the pamphlets 'Christian Healing and one on the discovery of same (I am not sure of exact title). I do not know if this amount covers postage, or if it is sent by mail; but as this is case with most books suppose it to be so. If not please send me postal card with information of amount due and I will forward it– unless more than .25Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1886 is the equivalent of $8.34 in 2024.– if more than that amount send by express,

I understand your revised edition is ready – if not, I prefer to have the pamphlets now and wait for the book,

Mrs. C. O. Colburn
941.91.072
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Enclosed find for $3.35, (3.00+.25+10)Editorial Note: $3.35 in 1886 is the equivalent of $111.73 in 2024. for your new edition Science & Health also the pamphlets 'Christian Healing and one ofn the discovery of same (I am not sure of exact title). I do not know if this amount covers postage, or if it is sent by mail; but as this i [?] Unclear or illegible s case with most books suppose it to be so. If not please send me postal card with information of amount due and I will forward it– unless more than .25Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1886 is the equivalent of $8.34 in 2024.– if more than that amount send by express,

I understand your revised edition is ready – if not, I prefer to have the pamphlets now and wait for the book,

Mrs. C. O. Colburn
 
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$3.35 in 1886 is the equivalent of $111.73 in 2024. $0.25 in 1886 is the equivalent of $8.34 in 2024.