Accession: 060B.17.002
Editorial Title: Orrilla W. Day to Mary Baker Eddy, March 1, 1886
Author: Orrilla W. Day 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 1, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Orrilla W. Day on unlined paper from Freeport, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and Mary Baker Eddy.
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Freeport IllinoisAs Written:Ills.
March 1st. /1886As Written:86
Dear Mrs Eddy,

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.

⇉ Handshift:Orrilla W. DayMy husband and I are intending to join your next class- but my daughter who is at the dental CollegeAs Written:Coll. in Ann Arbor UniversityAs Written:Uni. has her spring vacation on the 22 of March- and she will be home two weeks. She has been so homesickAs Written:home-sick to see her mother that I wish very much to be home with her- and also to get her ready to return to the CollegeAs Written:coll. I have been able by my practice this last year to keep her at school by [?] Unclear or illegible  strict economyAs Written:econemy. and the object of this letter is to ask if you will allow me to come on the same terms if I am not able to come when my husband does. but the succeeding term. I would be very grateful to you for this favor. for otherwise I would have to put it off a year, which I am very reluctant to do. I am practicing in this place and did I not know so well the power of the Glorious Truth- I would be astonished at the results. of some of its application.

I am dear Mrs Eddy yours in Love Life and Truth
Mrs O.W. Day
Freeport IllinoisAs Written:Ills
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddysend letter CircularAs Written:Cir. mark the word health Say tell us if your husband is well if so he and you come together no other way
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Freeport Ills.Expanded:Illinois
March 1st. /86Expanded:1886
Dear Mrs Eddy,

⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here.

⇉ Handshift:Orrilla W. DayMy husband and I are intending to join your next class- but my daughter who is at the dental Coll.Expanded:College in Ann Arbor Uni.Expanded:University has her spring vacation on the 22 of March- and she will be home two weeks. She has been so home-sickCorrected:homesick to see her mother that I wish very much to be home with her- and also to get her ready to return to the coll.Expanded:College I have been able by my practice this last year to keep her at school by [?] Unclear or illegible  strict econemyCorrected:economy. and the object of this letter is to ask if you will allow me to come on the same terms if I am not able to come when my husband does. but the succeeding term. I would be very grateful to you for this favor. for otherwise I would have to put it off a year, which I am very reluctant to do. I am practicing in this place and did I not know so well the power of the Glorious Truth- I would be astonished at the results. of some of its application.

I am dear Mrs Eddy yours in Love Life and Truth
Mrs O.W. Day
Freeport Mich IllsExpanded:Illinois
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddysend letter Cir.Expanded:Circular mark the word health Say tell us if your husband is well if so he and you come together [?] Unclear or illegible  no other way
 
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