Accession: L09670
Editorial Title: Mattie Bowen to Mary Baker Eddy, January 23, 1887
Author: Mattie Bowen 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: January 23, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mattie Bowen on lined paper from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Mattie Bowen
My dear Teacher"

I am here by Invitation of Dr Hammond to attend his class. as I heard no word from you & understand you had a Normal class a fortnight ago or less- why I was not notified I can't As Written: cant understand. I Sent you 2 of my cures when I Sent you Miss Kenny's & you said hers was lost– But made no mention of mine. & So I inferredAs Written:infered they were lost also. But I see you have found Miss Kenny's by the last Journal- & Perhaps mine also. I Sent you one other since then. but have never seen one of them in C. S. Journal is- it-? because they were not worth it. I now send you another todayAs Written:to day – this one I treated a year agoAs Written:a go. & there has been no return of the Catarrh or salt Rheum. the belief of catarrh As Written: cattarh was very bad So they of the house & the Patient herself Said her food would come out through her nose when she would eat her Breakfast– The treatments were all absent. & her hands were so bad she could not Put them in water, or wet them with anythingAs Written:any thing –she has worked for weeks this fall Paring & drying apples keeping her hands wet with the Juice of them all day- she tells me & they never got rough or sore a bit. & she said she could not have done that before. she & her sister live togetherAs Written:to gather & were both Poor girls & I offered to treat her- & of course charged nothing.

I am very Truly yours in Truth & Love
Mrs Mattie Bowen
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye Your application I must have overlooked Your cures for Journal must be sent to the direction of Publishing Company Mrs Eddy has nothing to do with getting articles published so they are liable any time to be lost if sent here
You made a mistake going into one of her student's As Written: students classes after you had been taught by Mrs Eddy That will prevent you entering her Normal class
L09670
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Mattie Bowen
My dear Teacher"

I am here by Invitation of Dr Hammond to attend his class. as I heard no word from you & understand you had aa Normal class a fortnight ago or less- why I was not notified I cant Corrected: can't understand. I Sent you 2 of my cures when I Sent you Miss Kenny's & you said hers was lost– But made no mention of midne. & So I inferedCorrected:inferred they were lost also. But I see you have found Miss Kenny's by the last Journal- & Perhaps mine also. I Sent you one other since then. but have never seen one of them in C. S. Journal is- it-? because they were not worth it. I now send you another to dayCorrected:today – this one I treated a year a goCorrected:ago. & there has been no return of the Catarrh or salt Rheum. the belief of cattarh Corrected: catarrh was very bad So they of the house & the Patient herself Said her food would come out through her nose when she would eat her Breakfast– The treatments were all absent. & her hands were so bad she could not Put them in water, or wet them with any thingCorrected:anythingstshe has worked for weeks this faffll Paring & drying apples keeping her hands wet with the Juice of them all day- she tells me & they never got rough or sore a bit. & she said she could not have done that before. she & her sister live to gatherCorrected:together & were both Poor girls & I offered to treat her- & of course charged nothing.

I am very Truly yours in Truth & Love
Mrs Mattie Bowen
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye Your application I must have overlooked Your [?] Unclear or illegible cures for Journal must be sent to the direction of Publishing Company Mrs Eddy has nothing to do with [?] Unclear or illegible  getting articles published so they are liable any time to be lost if sent here
You made a mistake going into one of her students Corrected: student's classes after [?] Unclear or illegible  you had been taught by Mrs Eddy That will prevent you entering [?] Unclear or illegible  her Normal class
 
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