Accession: 223A.37.003
Editorial Title: Minnie B. Hall De Soto to Mary Baker Eddy, February 1886
Author: Minnie B. Hall De Soto 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Unknown 
Date: February 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Minnie B. Hall De Soto on unlined paper from Denver, Colorado.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and an unknown author.
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeFeb 1886As Written:'86
Dear Mrs. Eddy;-

As you know Mama and I studied with B. Sherman we have done wonderful As Written: wonderfull work since our second lesson one or both of us are very anxious to come to you and study. It seems to me that Denver needs a teacher from your College. so many who scarcely know anythingAs Written:any thing of this work are trying to teach here. Would you allow us to take the different courses with you in succession it is a long trip and I should like to remain at the College until we had finished Our house is crowded from early until late. We have over 60 regular patients beside our absent patients, but I feel that it is wrong for those to teach who have not proven to themselvesAs Written:them-selves that All is in Christian Science I know that you advise one year's practice before the Normal Class, but I hoped you would make a little exception. I will have had six months' As Written: months practice, but they have been Fully put in we have several noted cases in Denver. Those who have walked the streets for years lame. blind & IdioticAs Written:Idotic. Of course such cures cause the notice of everyoneAs Written:every one and they will put more confidence in the Metaphysician.

Excuse me for writing at such length. But will you take us in that way? I feel that I want to give my life to this work.

You really seem like my mother, I am so anxious to come.

Yours in Truth & Love
Minnie B. Hall
Handshift:UnknownH.
223A.37.003
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Handshift:Calvin A. FryeFeb '86Expanded:1886
Dear Mrs. Eddy;-

As you know Mama and I studied with B. Sherman we have done wonderfull Corrected: wonderful work since our second lesson one or both of us are very anxious to come to you and study. It seems to me that Denver needs a teacher from your College. so many who scarcely know any thingCorrected:anything of this work are trying to teach here. Would you allow us to take the different courses with you in succession it is a long trip and I should like to remain at the College until we had finished Our house is crowded from early until late. We have over 60 regular patients beside our absent patients, but I feel that it is wrong for those to teach who have not proven to them-selvesCorrected:themselves that All is in Christian Science I know that you advise one year's practice before the Normal Class, but I hoped you would make a little exception. I will have had six months Corrected: months' practice, but they have been Fully put in we have several noted cases in Denver. Those who [?] Unclear or illegible  have walked the streets for years lame. blind & IdoticCorrected:Idiotic. Of course such cures cause the notice of every oneCorrected:everyone and they will put moore confidence in the Metaphysician.

Excuse me for writing at such length. But will you take us in that way? I feel that I want to give my life to this work.

You really seem like my mother, I am so anxious to come.

Yours in Truth & Love
Minnie B. Hall
Handshift:UnknownH.
 
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