Sept 17- 1886.
You have doubtless got before this, my answer to your TelegramEditorial Note: This telegram is not extant.. Your real love I am as grateful for as it is possible for me to be, and I hope at
no distant period that I shall be able to show it in something more than words. I
am grieved that I grieved you in not accompanying My Dear Wife to the Class. She has probably explained to you the reason ere this. It is not an
easy matter to break up home and dispose of the three children that are with us. Even
if I could have made disposition of our family, I had not the means to meet expenses
for both of us, and after the Satisfaction you expressed with me on the examination
in presence of Bro Frye & Sister MorganEditorial Note: Possibly Martha E. S. Morgan and then your subsequent request that I should return home as quick as possible I
did think that you could trust me without [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting
the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Normal Class opens Oct 4 Come freely will write Mary B. G. Eddy
Mr. T. H. Donehue
3 La Veta Place Denver ColoradoAs Written:Colo. [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Joseph A. Adams Anxiety until the time came for me to enter the Normal Class. I can assure you my beloved Teacher, that you need have no fear about me, though
my enemies here are numerous and persistent. The omnipresent and omnipotent Good is
consciously with me. Your BookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is my daily study & my understanding of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. is growing all the time, But as your kindness promises to remove the difficulty of
my going through Another Class, I shall gladly avail myself of it, as I never felt
the need of it more than I do now, and I doubt not that I may Soon be able to repay
you for the outlay. It is now my intention to start on the 25th Inst and in one week from that time you may expect to see the 'material belief' of
yours truly