It has been my hope for a long time to know you personally, or rather I would say to make myself known to you, for I feel that I do know you well living as I do almost continually in your thoughts. But the object of this letter is more especially in introduce to you a lady who will possibly be in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts almost as soon as this letter. At the risk of making my letter very irregular but I trust not wholly unintelligible I will first say that my name is Mrs A. Knott, that I am a student of Mr B. Sherman of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, (who with his wife were personal friends for the last three years) and that I came to Detroit in March for the purpose of introducing your system of metaphysical healingEditorial Note: Christian Science. I may here say that since childhood almost the dearest wish of my life amounting almost to a passion was to be engaged in ministering to the sick and only the opposition of relatives prevented my taking a hospital course early in life. After my marriage, in '76 I went to Europe with my husband and resided for about five years in London, and a great deal of this time was spent in the hospitals there and in the study of homeopathy. I became acquainted with Dr. Hahnemann the grandson of the founder of that system, and read several of his books. At the same time my mind was much occupied with metaphysical speculation for the nectar of life had turned to wormwood and gall in my personal experience. We returned to this country in '82 and knowing Mr Sherman's people were deeply interested in Christian Science. I studied with Mr Sherman last year and being at the time in miserable health and spirits owing to severe afflictions it was to me the beginning of a new life.

Time will forbid my saying much at present respecting my work, but I have been, as all must be who are in earnest - wonderfully successful. I hope to write of this again but as I said the object of this letter is to introduce Mrs L. H. Stone one of the most highly educated ladies in this country, and an earnest seeker after Truth. She has travelled a great deal having visited all parts of Europe, and Asia Minor a good many times. She is above all a noble Christian woman, and the main object of her present visit to Boston is to investigate the spiritual truth which you are teaching. She has read your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and has seen some of my work and has labored hard against bitter opposition to introduce our systemEditorial Note: Christian Science here, this through no self-interest but purely in defense of what she hopes to be "the Truth" - She is an able writer and I think that with a fuller understanding of this system she would be an invaluable defender of the faith.

I would here say in the strictest confidence that she has not at present the means of studying, or taking a regular course at your college and I do not know that she has the time, and she has not the remotest thought of practising Corrected: practicing at present, but to a woman of her mind inactivity would be impossible, and I know that the Truth will lose nothing in coming from her lips or pen.

Mrs. Stone has occupied a high place in more than one collegiate institution in this country, and what I ask for her and what I am sure you will grant are the courtesies of the college, and that to one who comes without prejudice but impelled by the love of the Truth. –

On coming here I was pleased to meet Miss S. J. Clarke whose of Miss Bartlett's class, and have found her a sincere friend and fellow worker. We find that this is a very conservative place, and the attacks the newspapers have recently been making upon our systemEditorial Note: Christian Science are temporarily affecting the foolish fears of the people, but we have no fear that the banner of Truth once unfurled will ever have to be withdrawn.