Accession: 304.43.025
Editorial Title: Caroline D. Noyes to Mary Baker Eddy, October 31, 1885
Author: Caroline D. Noyes 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 31, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Caroline D. Noyes on embossed lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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304.43.025
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dear Teacher

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyBurets name

Handshift:Caroline D. NoyesMr Newton Stone of Georgetown, New YorkAs Written:Ny, intends to join your next Class. he was a Patient of mine. and a very nice man. He wants to be notified in season to come to Chicago and start from here with his Sister Mrs. Bell– I have also two other Patients Mr J.N. Wood. of Maquoketa, Iowa, and Mr D. D. Comstock, of Lost Nation, Iowa. They are both Swedenborgian I have sold them the BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and am trying to get them to come to your next Class and if it does not come off too soon think they will Mr Wood is not under treatment now. Mr Comstock is. They are both very enthusiastic and would study with me did I not urge them to go to you - They both are as nice men as l ever met– Mr Wood especially is one of the purest most spiritual minded men I ever met– his Father is a Swedenborg Minister and a Prof. for years in some College in Iowa – I am very anxious for them to go to you - Mr Woods wife died on my hands he brought her to me too As Written: to late for me to save her but it did not hurt his faith in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science - he saw so many of my other Patients – one bad case of bone Cancer when I had healed this summer made quite an impression– I have a Patient by the name of Mrs D. Elitch, of Denver Col, who is intending to come to you sometime and I am trying to get her to come to this class my treatment has converted her from the Catholic faith she says she don’t As Written: dont care what her Priest says – FreeportEditorial Note: Freeport, Illinois as I told you before (where Mrs Lathrop went from) is alive with this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and no one but me has done any work there except what little Mrs Lathrop did I have had twenty five or thirty from there and all helped and the most cured - some Friend sent me a paper from there todayAs Written:to day in which there is a long article in regard to a lecture of Dr Sawyers– who has probably heard of the interest there and has gone to advocate his Institute and himself that is the kind after others have done the work that go around and try to get the benefit of it – I am glad that I am not anxious to Teach that in fact I do not want to Teach and I am not teaching at all now – Students are too As Written: to much trouble to a Conscientious Person and since my Student Mrs Day— was lied about there in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and you can’t As Written: cant find a better Student can’t As Written: cant be found out side of your instructions. I am sicker of it than ever. but I don’t As Written: dont take all of the credit, the merit is in the woman, she is doing good work – and is a credit to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.– My Husband is still disturbing me and I don’t As Written: dont dare to treat him for my treatment brought on this belief of cold that he has and too my Patients have nearly all been worse since I treated him and O. I was doing so nicely before it seemed as though I could almost raise the dead – and I think I could before long if I could keep myself from being disturbed by things that sometimes arise I don’t As Written: dont intend to mix my thought with his again if I can help it that has been the trouble this time

I hope you will not be out of Patience with for there are some things that I am not able to do yet it was my disposition to be easily confused and that I have to fight more than anythingAs Written:any thing for when I can keep my understanding clear I am all right—

Your Loving Student
Mrs G. P. Noyes.

I have heard from Miss Bartlett have not yet replied shall soon –

304.43.025
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dear Teacher

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyBurets name

Handshift:Caroline D. NoyesMr Newton Stone of Georgetown, NyExpanded:New York, intends to join your next Class. he was a Patient of mine. and a very nice man. He wants to be notified in season to come to Chicago and start from here with his Sister Mrs. Bell– I have also two other Patients Mr N J.N. Wood. of Maquoketa, Iowa, and Mr D. D. Comstock, of Lost Nation, Iowa. They are both Swedenborgian I have sold them the BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and am trying to get them to come to your next Class and if it does not come off too soon think they will Mr Wood is not under treatment now. Mr Comstock is. They are both very enthusiastic and would study with me did I not urge them to go to you - They both are as nice men as l ever met– Mr Wood especially is one of the purest most spiritual minded men I ever met– his Father is a Swedenborg Minister and a Prof. for years in some College in Iowa – I am very anxious for them to go to you - Mr Woods wife died on my hands he brought her to me to Corrected: too late for me to save her but it did not hurt his faith in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science - he saw so many of my other Patients – one bad case of bone Cancer when I had healed this summer made quite an impression– I have a Patient by the name of Mrs D. Elitch, of Denver Col, who is intending to come to you sometime and I am trying to get her to come to this class my treatment has converted her from the Catholic faith she says she dont Corrected: don’t care what her Priest says – FreeportEditorial Note: Freeport, Illinois as I told you before (where Mrs Lathrop went from) is alive with this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and no one but me has done any work there except what little Mrs Lathrop did I have had twenty five or thirty from there and all helped and the most cured - some Friend sent me a paper from there to dayCorrected:today in which there is a long article ab in regard to a lecture of Dr Sawyers– who has probably heard of the interest there and has gone to advocate his Institute and himself that is the kind after others have done the work that go around and try to get the benefit of it – I am glad that I am not anxious to Teach that in fact I do not want to Teach and I am not teaching at all now – Students are to Corrected: too much trouble to a Conscientious Person and since my Student Mrs Day— was lied about there in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and you cant Corrected: can’t find a better Student cant Corrected: can’t be found outof side the of your instructions. I am sicker of it than ever. but I dont Corrected: don’t take all of the credit, the merit is in the woman, she is doing good work – and is a credit to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.– My Husband is still both disturbing me and I dont Corrected: don’t dare to treat him for my treatment brought on this belief of cold that he has and too my Patients have nearly all been worse since I treated him and O. I was doing so nicely before it seemed as though I could almost raise the dead – and I think I could before long if I could keep myself from being disturbed by things that sometimes arise I dont Corrected: don’t intend to mix my thought with his again if I can help it that has been the trouble this time

I hope you will not be out of Patience with for there are some things that I am not able to do yet it was my disposition to be easily confused and that I have to fight more than any thingCorrected:anything for when I can keep my understanding clear I am all right—

Your Loving Student
Mrs G. P. Noyes.

I have heard from Miss Bartlett have not yet replied shall soon –

 
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