Accession: 236.38.011
Editorial Title: Laura E. Sargent to Mary Baker Eddy, March 12, 1886
Author: Laura E. Sargent 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 12, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Laura E. Sargent on lined paper from Oconto, Wisconsin.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Calvin A. Frye and Mary Baker Eddy.
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Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 17
My dear Teacher

Received your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. and will return Charter at once. Have received the new edition of "Science and Health," and words are inadequate to express our thanks, for the boundless treasures of thought-uplifted, by Divine Love – found therein We know that the demonstration of its teachings will attest the sincerity of our gratitude, and prove the best expression of our love to you. "Christian Science" is so vast, so deep that what little we know seems as a drop in the ocean, compared with what there is yet to learn. When do you teach another "Normal' class. I should like to know at once if possible so I could arrange to go. Mrs Milledge would like to take that course also, but would first like to take the Collegiate course, and we think some others will go from here to take that same course. Do you think you could arrange a Normal class within one or two weeks after a Collegiate course. I long to see you so much that it seems as if I could hardly wait, but one of the lessons I am learning in Christian Science is patience; it is a lesson that must be learned well for its "perfect work"James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. to be accomplished. We all unite - in love, and may the realization of your highest As Written: hightest hopes be perfected in every one of your children in Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S.

Your loving student,
Laura E. Sargent.
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyShall be pleased to receive you into next Nor will give sufficient notice when it will Will take Mrs Milidge into next Class Mar 29 if she is well
236.38.011
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Calvin A. Frye[*]Archival Note: There is what appears to be shorthand written here. 17
My dear Teacher

Received your kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. and will return Charter at once. Have received the new edition of "Science and Health," and words are inadequate to express our thanks, for the boundless treasures of thought-uplifted, by Divine Love – found therein We know that the demonstration of its teachings will attest the sincerity of our gratitude, and prove the best expression of our love to you. "Christian Science" is so vast, so deep that what little we know seems as a drop in the ocean, compared w [?] Unclear or illegible ith what there is yet to learn. When do you teach another "Normal' class. I should like to know at once if possible so I could arrange to go. Mrs Milledge would like to take that course also, but would first like to take the Collegiate course, and we think some others will go from here to take that same course. Do you think you could arrange a Normal class within [?] Unclear or illegible  one or two weeks after a Collegiate course. I long to see you so much that it seems as if I could hardly wait, but one of the lessons I am learning in Christian Science is patience; it is a lesson that must be learned well for its "perfect work"James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. to be accomplished. We all unite - in love, and may the realization of your hightest Corrected: highest hopes be perfected in every one of your children in C. S.Expanded:Christian Science

Your loving student,
Laura E. Sargent.
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyShall be pleased to receive you into next Nor will let you know cl give sufficient notice when it will Will take Mrs Milidge into next Class Mar 29 if she is well
 
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There is what appears to be shorthand written here. Oconto, Wisconsin This letter is not extant.