Accession: L09774
Editorial Title: Laura Sargent to Mary Baker Eddy, March 24, 1887
Author: Laura E. Sargent 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 24, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten letter by Laura E. Sargent with a note by Mary Baker Eddy handwritten on the back of it, directing her secretary how to respond.
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My beloved Teacher

I received a letter from a friend who wished me to write to you and ask if you expect to teach a class in April, what time it would commence, and whether it would be a PrimaryEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught a Primary class in Christian Science starting on May 2, 1887. or Normal.

The Lady I refer to is a member of our Association has been studying, and demonstrating for two and one half years frequently healing in one treatment. Last year she took a course with Dr Sawyer. She would have gone to you but then did not have the money.

I know you would love her she is such an earnest seeker after Truth and of the best moral character. I am so anxious to have her study with you. It will be a joy to you to hear her explain how she took "Science & Health" and healed herself of beliefs of thirty years standing and gave up the old Theology for this blessed Truth and then went to work helping others. If you opened a class soon after the National Association meeting she thought she could go with me so as not to travel alone and then wait till class convened. I would like to know if you expect to preach on Easter SundayEditorial Note: Easter Sunday was April 10, 1887. We do not have evidence that Mary Baker Eddy preached that Sunday. for if so I would like to be present. I am hungering to hear a real Christian Science sermon. If not too much trouble will you please answer at once. We all join in love to our dear Teacher

Your loving student
Laura E. Sargent.

Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy With much love to Mrs S. Say I have done taking students students in the Primary and she has not waited two years for Normal

L09774
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My beloved Teacher

I received a letter from a friend who wished me to write to you and ask if you expect to teach a class in April, what time it would commence, and whether it would be a PrimaryEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught a Primary class in Christian Science starting on May 2, 1887. or Normal.

The Lady I refer to is a member of our Association has been studying, and demonstrating for two and one half years frequently healing in one treatment. Last year she took a course with Dr Sawyer. She would have gone to you but then did not have the money.

I know you would love her she is such an earnest seeker after Truth and of the best moral character. I am so anxious to have her study with you. It will be a joy to you to hear her explain how she took "Science & Health" and healed herself of beliefs of thirty years standing and gave up the old Theology for this blessed Truth and then went to work helping others. If you opened a class soon after the National Association meeting she thought she could go with me so as not to travel alone and then wait till class convened. I would like to know if you expect to preach on Easter SundayEditorial Note: Easter Sunday was April 10, 1887. We do not have evidence that Mary Baker Eddy preached that Sunday. for if so I would like to be present. I am hungering to hear a real Christian Science sermon. If not too much trouble will you please answer at once. We all join in love to our dear Teacher

Your loving student
Laura E. Sargent.

Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy With much love to Mrs S. Say I have done taking students students in the Primary and she has not waited two years for Normal

 
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Easter Sunday was April 10, 1887. We do not have evidence that Mary Baker Eddy preached that Sunday. Mary Baker Eddy taught a Primary class in Christian Science starting on May 2, 1887.