Last August my mother and self first came into a knowledge of metaphysics through going to Mrs. Fenn, of OmahaEditorial Note: Omaha, Nebraska, for treatment, and by aid of your glorious booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy the understanding came to us at once as by revelation, we have been constantly growing better and can think or talk of nothing else. My mother is one of the most wonderful of cures, being, in belief, nearly dead with heart disease and is now well, she longs so much to come to you but we are poor, I am teaching in the public school and supporting myself and mother.

For weeks I have been impelled to write asking admittance to your class but have felt I could not stop in the middle of a term, this term closes the 18th of Dec. may I then come?

IIt closes for a two week's vacation only but I feel as though I must know more of this glorious ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, nothing else has any attraction for me. Mrs. Fenn has been very anxious that I should come to you but the last time I saw her I also met Mrs. Coleman who expects to start a class in OmahaEditorial Note: Omaha, Nebraska or BeatriceEditorial Note: Beatrice, Nebraska probably in Jan. She tells me it will cost $100Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,635.64 in 2019. to learn of her and $200Editorial Note: $200 in 1885 is the equivalent of $5,271.29 in 2019. to come to you.

The difference is quite an item to a poor teacher but I feel that I need the best teaching and that can come only from you. May I come, if I can get the money, and when?

Shall anxiously await your reply,