My most persistent efforts to induce some of my friends to join your class, have resulted in absolute failure, and I am really very much depressed, having felt so very sanguine of success, when I started in quest of pupilsEditorial Note: Apparently Mary Baker Eddy was at this time requesting that her students and potential students find others who would be interested in studying with her. For another example of this, see 701A.82.013.. Mr Ames cannot join the class at present and I fear I am powerless to enthuse any one, consequently there is no alternative left me, not to “pursue the even tenor of my way”, and continue my lectures & recitals, trusting that in the far future, fortune may favor me with a knowledge of the science of metaphysicsEditorial Note: Christian Science, which I so much desire. I fully appreciate your very generous terms to me, and assure you, had I succeeded in securing pupils, should have been only too happy to have availed myself of them.

I will send you cards to matinee at Tremont Temple Nov 20th, and hope you will give me the pleasure of your presence on that day.

Hoping to have the pleasure of hearing you in public this season, and wish many thanks for your kind interest