ea At the earnest solicitation of my daughter, I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you, hoping to meet with a ready response. She is now nineteen, and from infancy has been a child of misfortune regarding her walking and talking.— Through the urgent request of a friend I placed her under Doctor Dorman's treatment, he said, "he could cure her," but he has not, although has helped her considerably to walk stronger and better. It was the first we had known that there was such a ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and why when he wished us to purchase the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and said they would help her as much as he could we we could not conceive, bought them however, and [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. the good they have done her, my pen cannot portray She is completely enraptured with them and understands every word in them, what I cannot do and never expect to. Says, "it is just what she has longed and thristed Corrected: thirsted for, and feels it to be her mission in the future." Her whole life has always been blended with heaven and Christ and she is endowed with gifts of mind and intellect far beyond her years. [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. has never attended school and yet can talk upon subjects which I should fail upon; Can write a beautiful piece of poetry upon any subject you have a mind to propose, has written a sermon and they preached it at a meeting. It may sound foolish for me as I am her mother to be telling such things but I do it so to give you a little insight of what she is. [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. Since she has studied your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy she don't seem to care anything about her own restoration but it all seems to be for others. My back has troubled me for years and I've not known what it was to have a good nights Corrected: night's rest. aA week ago Sunday I retired quite early and passed a terrible night and told her in the morning about it and remarked to her that she need not try to make me believe it was "only a belief," the following night which was a week ago tonight reluctantly went to bed early, expecting to pass another night of pain, soon went to sleep and did not wake until morning, laid there some time not knowing what to make of it and was quite alarmed when I found I had not got the back acheCorrected:backache, awoke Flossie (my daughter) and imparted the news to her and she says "I cured you it was only a belief!" It has not pained me since and it is a week tonight. She has effected three other cures in a similar way, or else it has happened so. [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. Your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy say, "no one can practice without going through a course of studies". Will you please inform me the terms, expense, and all necessary information to be gained in order to be proficient?—

If we should come to BostonArchival Note: Boston, Massachusetts could we have the pleasure of meeting you if we called at the College? [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. My daughter has a very great desire to personally meet the lady who wrote those books, and she thinks you could cure her entirely.