Accession: 274.41.003
Editorial Title: Emma A. Estes to Mary Baker Eddy, May 29, 1886
Author: Emma A. Estes 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: May 29, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma A. Estes on lined paper from Fremont, Nebraska.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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Mrs. Eddy,
Dear Lady: –

Perhaps As Written: Prehaps you will remember that I wrote asking to join your class in DecemberEditorial Note: See 274.41.001. [?] Unclear or illegible  but that circumstances arose to prevent my coming at that time. I feel as though I could not wait any longer for the greater knowledge that I am "hungering and thirstingMatt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. for, my school is not yet closed but I willing to give up that and everythingAs Written:every thing else in the world for a better understanding of Truth that I know your teaching will give me. Your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy have been my constant companions ever since my mother and I saw Mrs. Fenn, that dear lady who first led us to comprehend our Divine rights.

Please name me for your June class, if I am too late for May.

Shall most anxiously [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. Handshift:Mary Baker EddyTell her I shall not open a class very soon Will book her name and inform her when my next class opens [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Handshift:Emma A. Estesawait your reply and date of class.

Lovingly and reverently,
Emma A. Estes.

Telegraph me if I can reach there in time for the May class, please don't leave me out.

Earnestly,

E. E.

274.41.003
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mrs. Eddy,
Dear Lady: –

Prehaps Corrected: Perhaps you will remember that I wrote asking to join your class in DecemberEditorial Note: See 274.41.001. [?] Unclear or illegible  but that circumstances arose to prevent my coming at that time. I feel as though I could not wait any longer for the greater knowledge that I am "hungering and thirstingMatt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. for, my school is not yet closed but I willing to give up that and every thingCorrected:everything else in the world for a better understanding of Truth that I know your teaching will give me. Your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy have been my constant companions ever since my mother and I saw Mrs. Fenn, theat dear lady who first led us to comprehend our Divine rights.

Please name me for your June class, if I am too late for May.

Shall most anxiously [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. Handshift:Mary Baker EddyTell her I shall not have open a class very soon Will book her name and inform her when my next class opens [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Handshift:Emma A. Estesawait your reply and date of class.

Lovingly and reverently,
Emma A. Estes.

Telegraph me if I can reach there in time for the May class, please don't leave me out.

Earnestly,

E. E.

 
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