Your very kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. delighted me much, and taught me again the lesson, that kind thoughts precede kind acts, and you accepted my humble offering, with its best intention of thought. You would have received one more of those useful articles handkerchiefsAs Written: handkerchifs , if I had not been invited to contribute my mite for the clock; shall wish to hear those silver chimes As Written: chims sometime As Written: some time ! My dear teacher you would have seen me at the college ere this with my little pile, to redeem myself, from what I should otherwise consider an unpleasant obligation, but, that I have a class almost formed to teach, and thought with a little longer delay I could erase the remaining amount.

A lady called today to see about studying, she had previously consulted Mrs. Leavitt and Mrs. Smith, both members of my last class with you; they each informed her their prices were one hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,640.65 in 2019., the amount charged, by your decisionAs Written: decission . I understood you to say, in answer to Dr. Buswell’s proposition to charge that amount, that it was better for us, as beginners, to ask the same price others were asking, fifty dollarsEditorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1,320.32 in 2019.. Will you please enlighten me on this question. I ask, you know my price, still, I hardly think you hold me fifty percent below par, especially when I tell you all my time is and has been given to the practice As Written: practise and study of Christian Science, and I am doing some wonderful cures that I will relate when I see you. Of course, I should not teach another class, less than my classmates, if you think I am quite as capable as they.