I sent you an order for two sets of your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, yesterday, & now feel called upon to inform you of the progress of Mind Cure in this city. Mrs. Root, who studied with Mrs. Rice, I think. has taught, & caused to be instructed in her class – during her absence – as may Corrected: many as 300 pupils, I should judge. Her charge for five lessons, a course, is $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021.. Mrs. Wolfe, a BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts student, charges $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021.. Mrs. Harris, also a Boston student charges $5Editorial Note: $5.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $143.75 in 2021.. Two Miss Bennets, (two classes), pupils of Mrs. Root, $5Editorial Note: $5.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $143.75 in 2021.. Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Bowles, (He is one of the Bowles Bros.Expanded:Brothers [?] Unclear or illegible  bankers, who fiailed Corrected: failed in ParisEditorial Note: Paris, France & elsewhere [?] Unclear or illegible  in 74Expanded:1874.) pupils of Mrs- Root, $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021.. A Dr. Dunlap, who picked up gratuitously in Mrs. Roots class all he knows of Divine Science, she says, has a Meta –Expanded:Metaphysical College & charges $50Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,437.54 in 2021. a course. He can probably count his students on the fingers of one hand, Rev. Joseph Adames, a congregational minister, who is excommunicated on account of his heracy Corrected: heresy in mind cure, & his wife, Mrs. Dr Adams are teaching in OaklandEditorial Note: Oakland, California, five miles from here, across the bay, for $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021., Mrs. M. E. Bucknell, M.D., who is now teaching Mrs. Root's class, during her absence in Los AngelesEditorial Note: Los Angeles, California, has a class in O.Expanded:Oakland, also, where she resides, $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021.. She says this science was discouveredCorrected:discovered & formulated by Dr. Quimby, of Portland, Me.Expanded:Maine, her old home. She dont Corrected: don't approve of women clergewomenCorrected:clergy women. I have nevr Corrected: never heard your name spoken in class or at public meetings by one of the teachers, & I have been in daily attendance for the last three months. Last sunday I got the loan of the first Vol.Expanded:Volume of your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy & have read it & re-read it. this is why I want them. To say I, for one, are m proud of you is faint praise. I have not attended any church regularly for years, simply because I am tired of the "He" in church & State. How I have suffered at the hands of the "He" directly & indirectly let the papers I send you tell. Be sure & read the brief sketch of my life in "N. E. R."Editorial Note: Belva Ann Lockwood and Marietta L. B. Stow's National Equal Rights journal & a "Night Behind the Bars" in "W. H. of I."Editorial Note: Women's Herald of Industry, of which Stow was the editor. — which is not dead, but lying fallow for a season. My pupils set the type of the paper & I am a poor speller & proofreader, hence the typCorrected:type - errors. Now, Mrs. Eddy, we, some of Mrs. Root's pupils, are making an effort to have a Simon pureCorrected:Simon-pure woman's church here, after the plan of your'sCorrected:yours in Boston, & I write you just how everything is here so that you will know just how to assist us with your councilsCorrected:counsels. We shall be a child of yours. Mrs. Root takes no interest in it. We have held Seven meetings already, & they have been announced, under "Church Notices" as "The First Christian Science Church of San FranciscoEditorial Note: The current First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco, a branch of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, was not officially formed until 1895.." & understood to be a woman's church & movement, which has caued Corrected: caused some of the "bretheren," who want to rule & head evythgCorrected:everything, tear their hair. Now what we want to do is to be followers, not leaders, of the woman who dared, Mrs. Eddy, of Boston, See?

I have sowed so much, for others to reapJohn 4:36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. John 4:37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. that I am a monomaniac upon justice. I forgot to mention "Chainey & Kimball." They charge $10Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $287.51 in 2021.., & have done the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. infinite harm by their "affinity" lives. Mrs. Root, unfortunately, has a perfectly worthless agent, John Arnoup, whose wife, in Oakland,, suports Corrected: supports herself & children by going out by the day, sewing, washing & schrubbingCorrected:scrubbing. Such things kill. I want nothing to do with any woman, in this work, who is tangled up with some vile man that smirches the whole effort. There are capable women enoghCorrected:enough [?] Unclear or illegible  that would do all an agent can do - & that would leave [?] Unclear or illegible  no "trail of the serpent." on over the work & causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. Any advice, from your large experience, in regard to our church plan will be most gratefully recevedCorrected:received, & any printed sermons, if you have them. Please command me for any service which I can render you here & believe me