[*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by the author or another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Calvin A. FryeSay I have no time conceived of for giving up teaching I [?] Unclear or illegible  Mrs E says My times are in His handsPs 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. I make no calen Corrected: calendar of the future but do my duties today shall have a class the first or middle of Sept I do not desire a stu'sExpanded:students to read up or study up preperats Corrected: preparing to come to for my Class. I can take care of all that will want 6mo for 1/2 tuition.[*]Archival Note: End floating text.

⇉ Handshift:Anna C. ThewIt was a pleasure to receive your kind acknowledgement of my "mite,"Mark 12:41 ¶And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. Mark 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: Mark 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. Luke 21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. Luke 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: Luke 21:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. which I really had not regarded as of sufficient importance to receive acknowledgement, so your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was a surprise as well as a pleasure. It has, however, started a little doubt in my mind, which can be satisfied only by applying to you, so I venture once more.

Your letter stated that you hoped I would see my way clear financially, and not postpone coming to study with you too long. I have wondered ever since, if you had any 'special reason for saying that, such as an intention on your part of giving up teaching.

I would like very much to study with you, but I do not see my way clear at present, and it will be a long time before I will have money enough. But I do not want to lose the opportunity altogether, and if there were any possible chance of your giving up teaching by a year from next Oct., I might make a mighty effort and try to enter a class next Oct. if you have one at that time- and I would be glad to know whether you do have one between the middle of Sept. and the last of Oct. of this year.

I am so situated that I could not come at any other time. I am employed as "Parish Visitor" and work among the poor of Grace Parish, Rector Rev. Dr. Huntington. They will, I think, give me a vacation, and I could arrange to take it at the time you have your class, if it comes between the middle of Sept. and the last of Oct. because that is the time that I can be best spared.

My salary is but $40.00Editorial Note: $40.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,245.34 in 2022. a month, and I have on hand now only $6000Editorial Note: $60.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,868.02 in 2022. so by the time Sept. is here I will have not so very much towards the full amount requisite for the course; and if you are not going to give up teaching, I will wait until a year from next Fall, by which time I will have the money.

You will perhaps wonder why I do not take patients and increace Corrected: increase my income that way. Living in a fourth flat the probabilities are that I will be able to do very little, although I have my cards printed, and will be glad to take all that will come in connection with my other work

Mr. Campbell, my teacher, thinks it would be as well for me to "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" what I already have of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, so that when I do come to you it will be with a clearer understanding and the greater profit to myself. So, although I am very anxious to study with you, if there is no danger of your giving up, I will be content to wait.