I wish to add one personal line - My bargain with you, (when I declined your offer to be a Charity student), was to pay you your full tuition fee of $300Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $7,906.93 in 2019. from first proceeds recdExpanded:received from practising Corrected: practicing Christian Science. I have one friend also a relative, whom, if I cured, [?] Unclear or illegible  thoExpanded:though I charged no fee, I should receive a check from, far outstripping your charge for tuition, I feel fully assured- so that I felt if I could heal, that you could easily be paid above. While I did not feel it to be morally right in my circumstances for me to indulge myself to the extent of $300Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $7,906.93 in 2019. or $100Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,635.64 in 2019., because it would have to come out of my principal, the income of which is no more than my necessity requires– You may judge my dismay & surprise when after three lessons you asked for a note [?] Unclear or illegible  though you had offered to teach me for nothing- I am a business womanCorrected:businesswoman, & knew I could not give you a note on demand or [?] Unclear or illegible  pay other than conditionally as I had proposed & you agreed- How far that circumstance had to do with the failure on my part to receive any practical benefit from the class I do not care to say– thoExpanded:though I [?] Unclear or illegible  have my opinion. But one thing is certain- that had I paid you, even so much as [?] Unclear or illegible  the $50Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1,317.82 in 2019. (which I offered to pay outright for tuition) & not received any benefit either to myself, [?] Unclear or illegible  or power to heal others, as the instruction claims to do for an honest earnest student, I should not have allowed a newspaper, secular or religious, in any large centre Corrected: center to remain uninformed of the swindle- As I did not pay, it is no swindle & your own honest intentions [?] Unclear or illegible  were shown in your willingness to take the paytExpanded:payment when I had recdExpanded:received the value as the fruits of your instruction- But I decline to be now [?] Unclear or illegible  dubbed by you as a charity student, without assuring you that you [?] Unclear or illegible  may regret it- for it was an honest & fair bargain. If I agree to pay for a carpet when recdExpanded:received, & yet never receive it, I owe nothing. So, if I received this power to heal, I could almost immediately have brought you the full tuition fee, for friends had told me that if I cured them, they would reward me more than that amtExpanded:amount. Should I yet ever heal and the patient had means, I should state my case, & what a heavy incubus upon me, is, this conditional debt to you & the full reciepts Corrected: receipts obtained by me should at once go to you until the uttermost farthingMatt 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. is paid.

sShould you think it best to mention this business transaction with the Assocn , or that I had not yet paid you, I wish this letter also to go as a record of the Assocn & be read by the SectExpanded:Secretary to the Assocn. Unless you speak of it, of course I do not feel free to make any public criticism of it- With best wishes