Accession: 237AP2.38.007
Editorial Title: Silas J. Sawyer to Mary Baker Eddy, July 18, 1885
Author: Silas J. Sawyer 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: July 18, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Silas J. Sawyer on lined paper from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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126 Grand Ave.
Milwaukee WisconsinAs Written:Wis.
July 18/85
Mrs Eddy
Dear Teacher:

I send you the EnclosedEditorial Note: This is not extant; however, an article by Sawyer titled “The Unity of Mind and Body,” was published in the August 1885 issue of the Journal. It is possible that he was referring to a copy of this article. as a contribution for "Journal"

Shall also try and have it published in one of our papers. I offered it to one but they refused; and because there was no money in it.

The article will give you some idea of my attitudeAs Written:atitude, because I am certain that I have the Spirit as well as the letter of Christian Science; and I can have the Spirit as I live in it.

This article suggested the subject of my last Friday Evening talk, which we are having regularly. This cityEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin is very different from Chicago, being more conservative and slower; and one might think we had made no growth; but I can see a good hardy growth; and some of my later students here, are staunch firm scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists, showing no disposition try something else, to read Evans, Arens, or others.

The probabilities are you may have a Dr M. A Fairchild in your next class. She came here, took a course of instruction returned home, to Hannibal MissouriAs Written:Mo - and continued practicing her physicsEditorial Note: allopathic medicine, massage, mixing with metaphysics; The last I heard from her, she had been reading Evans, and taking her "Swedenborgenism,"Editorial Note: This is a reference to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Berkley with it all, you can understand how much of scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science she could get. When you teach her, she will agree with you, and make a considerable ring on the word truth, then proceed to suit all your teachings according to her belief, of a "correspondence to truth." When she wrote me she desired to go to you, I advised it; and trust she will. She has ample means, and alone in the world. She paid me $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,659.49 in 2020..

Just here let me say; that to no one have I suggested that you would make a discount for instruction; since the class I arranged for you in Chicago, hence if your card in the Journal is there by reason of any representations in relation to myself. there is no foundations for them.

Faithfully As Written: Faithfuly Your Student
S. J. Sawyer
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126 Grand Ave.
Milwaukee Wis.Expanded:Wisconsin
July 18/85
Mrs Eddy
Dear Teacher:

I send you the EnclosedEditorial Note: This is not extant; however, an article by Sawyer titled “The Unity of Mind and Body,” was published in the August 1885 issue of the Journal. It is possible that he was referring to a copy of this article. as a contribution for "Journal"

Shall also try and have it published in one of our papers. I offered it to one but they refused; and because there was no money in it.

The article will give you some idea of my atitudeCorrected:attitude, because I am certain that I have the Spirit as well as the letter of Christian Science; and I can have the Spirit as I live in it.

This article suggested the subject of my last Friday Evening talk, which we are having regularly. This cityEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin is very different from Chicago, being more conservative and slower; and one might think we had made no growth; but I can see a good hardy growth; and some of my later students here, are staunch firm scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists, showing no disposition try something else, to read Evans, Arens, or others.

The probabilities are you may have a Dr M. A Fairchild in your next class. She came here, took a course of instruction returned home, to Hannibal MoExpanded:Missouri - and continued practicing her physicsEditorial Note: allopathic medicine, massage, mixing with metaphysics; The last I heard from her, she had been reading Evans, and taking her "Swedenborgenism,"Editorial Note: This is a reference to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Berkley with it all, you can understand how much of scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science she could get. When you teach her, she will agree with you, and make a considerable ring on the word truth, then proceed to suit all your teachings according to her belief, of a "correspondence to truth." When she wrote me she desired to go to you, I advised it; and trust she will. She has ample means, and alone in the world. She paid me $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,659.49 in 2020..

Just here let me say; that to no one have I suggested that you would make a discount for instruction; since the class I arranged for you in Chicago, hence if your card in the Journal is there by reason of any representations in relation to myself. there is no foundations for them.

Faithfuly Corrected: Faithfully Your Student
S. J. Sawyer
 
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This is not extant; however, an article by Sawyer titled “The Unity of Mind and Body,” was published in the August 1885 issue of the Journal. It is possible that he was referring to a copy of this article. Milwaukee, Wisconsin Christian Scientists allopathic medicine This is a reference to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Christian Science $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,659.49 in 2020.