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Enclosed please find 31.00- doll [?] Unclear or illegible arsEditorial Note: $31.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $965.14 in 2022. for 1 doz books Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and 1 doz pamphlets Mind-HealingEditorial Note: Possibly Historical Sketch of Metaphysical Healing. There is much interest in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science here but we ha [?] Unclear or illegible ve to work hard to undo the mischief of those two ladies I wrote you off Corrected: of for they make me many angry by telling them "nothing ailes Corrected: ails them" and trying to beat the DrExpanded:Doctor out by treating thieir patients and in return one of the Dr's Corrected: Drs have been to several of our patients by telling their disease would kill them we could only help them for a time- or that if [?] Unclear or illegible  cured in one part of the [?] Unclear or illegible body would strike to some other and kill them – some they frighten and others do not mind what they say- I tell my students they must work harder- and I know we are growing stronger in the truth every day- Rev O. F. Gifford is to litecture next Friday at Chautauqua on Christian Science I am going to have it announced in the JamestownEditorial Note: Jamestown, New York dailies also see what I can do in regard to having it published-

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