Accession: 402.51.039
Editorial Title: Albert B. Dorman to Mary Baker Eddy, June 4, 1885
Author: Albert B. Dorman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 4, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Albert B. Dorman on printed stationery from Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Worcester, MassachusettsAs Written:Mass., 6/4 1885
My dear Teacher,

Yours dated May 31Editorial Note: This letter is not extant., received today, and you don’t As Written: dont know how glad I was to notice the handwritingAs Written:hand writing on the envelope I felt quite sure it was from you. I did not know but everybodyAs Written:every body had forgotten me. I have been feeling rather blue (in belief,) for some time. There is not the stir here that was in the fall and winter and I have been under large expense and it has had a tendency to take me from ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science but I have done some very remarkable work just the same in healing, but with all the rest of the discordant part I have just lost a brother (in belief) and although I passed through it much better than I could once, I had to be affected more or less by it. I healed As Written: heated him at first, then he had other treatment and last I took him again, but did not save him.

I have the article “reply to Miss Alcott”Editorial Note: Louisa May Alcott had published an article in the Woman's Journal, April 18, 1885, about how she had tried mind cure for headaches and writer’s cramp and it had not helped her. Evidently, Dorman had written a response to her article, to be published in some local papers. inserted in 2 of the papers here and shall get it into 2 or 3 more.

You remind me that I am getting out of the path again, and you are right, and almost at times seem to be stooped As Written: stuped to the Truth.

Where is the awakened sense with which I left your class, you ask? and where is much that I have had many times since? I can hardly tell, but my earnest desire and prayer is that I may know and see more of the Truth and be awakened again to the Real. I wish you would tell Sister Hopkins to write me a good long letter, I cannot ask your valuable time, but I do need assistance, just a little.

My dear Teacher can’t As Written: cant you see what I need and just drop me a few lives once more, Write right to the point and talk to me as you would your own Boy. I do need awakening once in the While I am sorry to say, but you know I am made up just right to move in more than one direction. Do think of me for I am ever an earnest worker for my dear Teacher.

From Your Affectionate Student
Albert
A. B. Dorman.
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Worcester, Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts, 6/4 1885
My dear Teacher,

Yours dated May 31Editorial Note: This letter is not extant., received today, and you dont Corrected: don’t know how glad I was to notice the hand writingCorrected:handwriting on the envelope I felt quite sure it was from you. I did not know but every bodyCorrected:everybody had forgotten me. I have been feeling rather blue (in belief,) for some time. There is not the stir here that was in the fall and winter and I have been under large expense and it has had a tendency to take me from ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science but I have done some very remarkable work just the same in healing, but with all the rest of the discordant part I have just lost a brother (in belief) and although I passed through it much better than I could once, I had to be affected more or less by it. I heated Corrected: healed him at first, then he had other treatment and last I took him again, but did not save him.

I have the article “reply to Miss Alcott”Editorial Note: Louisa May Alcott had published an article in the Woman's Journal, April 18, 1885, about how she had tried mind cure for headaches and writer’s cramp and it had not helped her. Evidently, Dorman had written a response to her article, to be published in some local papers. inserted in 2 of the papers here and shall get it into 2 or 3 more.

You remind me that I am getting out of the path again, and you are right, and almost at times seem to be stuped Corrected: stooped to the Truth.

Where is the awakened sense with which I left your class, you ask? and where is much that I have had many times since? I can hardly tell, but my earnest desire and prayer is that I may know and see more of the Truth and be awakened again to the Real. I wish you would tell Sister Hopkins to write me a good long letter, I cannot ask your valuable time, but I do need assistance, just a little.

My dear Teacher cant Corrected: can’t you see what I need and just drop me a few lives once more, Write right to the point and talk to me as you would your own Boy. I do need awakening once in the While I am sorry to say, but you know I am made up just right to move in more than one direction. Do think of me for I am ever an earnest worker for my dear Teacher.

From Your Affectionate Student
Albert
A. B. Dorman.
 
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This letter is not extant. Christian Science Louisa May Alcott had published an article in the Woman's Journal, April 18, 1885, about how she had tried mind cure for headaches and writer’s cramp and it had not helped her. Evidently, Dorman had written a response to her article, to be published in some local papers.