Your letterEditorial Note: See L05481. is receive [?] Unclear or illegible d & many thanks for your kind expressions in relation to my letter. I shall be thankful if any word of mine can benefit the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. & you are at liberty to use any part of [?] Unclear or illegible them you think fit for publication. I always think of you as having much to contend with & wish all students couldwould unite in sending you good thoughts rather than messages which can only [?] Unclear or illegible  in beliefs of mortal mind,

My husband & self are anxious to go to you for the course in Obstetrics, but owing to our financial condition cannot decide at present what we can do. h Have been expending our money in buildings & will have to wait for rents to acummulateCorrected:accumulate– being so far away we cannot go to Boston & return without at least $300'Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1888 is the equivalent of $9,241.76 in 2022. for traveling expenses besides the tuition which according to the journal is $400'Editorial Note: $400.00 in 1888 is the equivalent of $12,322.35 in 2022. for both & we have always made a point of working together in any thingCorrected:anything we undertake.

Can you give us any idea how long a time will intervene between this class & the next?

I do not want to find fault with any-one Corrected: anyone but feel it a duty to tell you that a Miss Woodbury while here, in a public lecture said she had been sent here to look after the Students, & that she also said that there was no one working in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science which of course is not so, for there are many honest workers, who adhere strictly to S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy as far as they have grown in the understanding of it. I was not here & did not hear it, but several ladies & two ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists have told me this & some are annoyed to think you should send her here, others question her veracity & look upon it as a means of organizing a class.

[?] Unclear or illegible Yesterday I was looking at your picture in S & H. & remarked to my husband that I would like your bust in marble. he requested me to write and ask you if you will be willing to give us photos (a fprofile & a full face Corrected: full-face ) with your permission to send them to Rome. for model [?] Unclear or illegible ing. While there we had our own made & are very much pleased with the m work, which is by an a American girl Luella M. Varney of Cleveland whom we taught C.S.Expanded:Christian Science while she was home on a visit, and taking orders- She had then modeled three Catholic bishops, Senator PayneEditorial Note: Probably Henry B. Payne (1810-1896), who was one of the United States Senators from Ohio from 1885 to 1891. Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, & my husbandsCorrected:husband's father, & returned to Rome with over $6000'Editorial Note: $6,000.00 in 1888 is the equivalent of $184,835.26 in 2022. worth of work in marble.

This is very material talk but I want you to be assured that you will not be caricatured by a poor piece of art. It will be life sizeCorrected:life-size, in best Carrara Marble & will cost $500'Editorial Note: $500.00 in 1888 is the equivalent of $15,402.94 in 2022..

Please give this question your attention as soon as you can conveniently & we hope for a descision in favour Corrected: favor of your