Accession: F00349
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Samuel Putnam Bancroft, December 17, 1874
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Samuel Putnam Bancroft 
Date: December 17, 1874
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
Archival Note: This letter is in the collection of Longyear Museum. V03053 is a copy of this letter.
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Dec 17th 1874
Dear Student

I expected to go to you last Tuesday and Mrs. Rice was going with me to pilot me but the cold kept me at home yesterday she could not go and George has been in Boston so much on the book businessEditorial Note: Eddy was working with a publisher to publish her book, Science and Health. for me I disliked to ask him to go To day I have no prospect of going, shall try to morrow, if I can get Mrs REditorial Note: This is likely either a reference to Dorcas Rawson or Miranda Rice. started As Written: startted but may not be able

I went out yesterday to Baltimore street As Written: strt to get Mrs French the furniture dealer's wife to visit you and Mrs Brown also of Baltimore street As Written: st I cant say whether they will go or not Ingalls has injured my success in this direction very much They wanted me to take the cases but I told them if they would apply to you I would oversee the job, did this to get them to go

A Miss Sweetland of California has writtenEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. for me to take her case there I answered I would put it in your hands and your terms might be a dollarEditorial Note: $1.00 in 1874 is the equivalent of $20.64 in 2014. a day money As Written: mony paid weekly. Call on me Sabbath if I do not go to you before and I will give you some advanced lessons in healing the absent

Yours
M B Glover

Hold on cheerful and hopefulAs Written:hopefull all will come out right

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Dec 17th 1874
Dear Student

I expected to go to you last Tuesday and Mrs. Rice was going with me to pilot me but the cold kept me at home yesterday she could not go and George has been in Boston so much on the book businessEditorial Note: Eddy was working with a publisher to publish her book, Science and Health. for me I disliked to ask him to go To day I have no prospect of going, shall try to morrow, if I can get Mrs REditorial Note: This is likely either a reference to Dorcas Rawson or Miranda Rice. startted Corrected: started but may not be able

I went out yesterday to Baltimore strt Corrected: street to get Mrs French the furniture dealser's wife to visit you and Mrs Brown also of Baltimore st Corrected: street I cant say whether they will go or not Ingalls has injured my success in this direction very much They wanted me to take the cases but I told them if they would apply to you I would oversee the job, did this to get them to go

A Miss Sweetland of California has writtenEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. for me to take her case there I answered I would put it in your hands and your terms might be a dollarEditorial Note: $1.00 in 1874 is the equivalent of $20.64 in 2014. a day mony Corrected: money paid weekly. Call on me Sabbath if I do not go to you before and I will give you some advanced lessons in healing the absent

Yours
M B Glover

Hold on cheerful and hopefullCorrected:hopeful all will come out right

 
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Eddy was working with a publisher to publish her book, Science and Health. This is likely either a reference to Dorcas Rawson or Miranda Rice. This letter is not extant. $1.00 in 1874 is the equivalent of $20.64 in 2014.