Accession: 536.57.003
Editorial Title: Anna C. Thew to Mary Baker Eddy, September 20, 1886
Author: Anna C. Thew 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 20, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Anna C. Thew on unlined paper from New York, New York.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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New York,
103 E. 123rd St.
Sept. 20' /'86
Dear Mrs. Eddy;

It is, perhaps, somewhat early to trouble you about your next class, but I am so anxious to study with you, and the next opportunity being the only one I will be able to avail myself of, I am anxious to know when you intend beginning it, so as to enable me to make arrangements with my employer – the Rev. Dr. Huntington – before he leaves the City to attend the Convention at ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois.

If you will kindly let me know when your class will begin, and if I may make one of the number, I will be greatly obliged to you.

I regret to say – for the sake of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science, as well as my own – I will have to be classed among those students called "indigent." If I may share the kind advantage extended to them, and be received in the class at $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,241.51 in 2023. discount, I will be very grateful.,

I have now about $180.00Editorial Note: $180.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,834.72 in 2023. which I have been a whole year saving, with the hope of studying with you. However, if I have the good fortune to come to Boston next month, we can arrange that better in a short conversation.

Trusting that the All Good will grant me that coveted blessing,
I am
Very respectfully
Anna Crawford.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy
She has booked you name for the next Class of the regular Collegiate Course
She Will discount $100.00 will let you know one week previous to Com. See Jour
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New York,
103 E. 123rd St.
Sept. 20' /'86
Dear Mrs. Eddy;

It is, perhaps, somewhat early to trouble you about your next class, but I am so anxious to study with you, and the next opportunity being the only one I will be able to avail myself of, I am anxious to know when you intend beginning it, so as to enable me to make arrangements with my employer – the Rev. Dr. Huntington – before he leaves the City to attend the Convention at ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois.

If you will kindly let me know when your class will begin, and if I may make one of the number, I will be greatly obliged to you.

I regret to say – for the sake of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science, as well as my own – I will have to be classed among those students called "indigent." If I may share the kind advantage extended to them, and be received in the class at $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,241.51 in 2023. discount, I will be very grateful.,

I have now about $180.00Editorial Note: $180.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,834.72 in 2023. which I have been a whole year saving, with the hope of studying with you. However, if I have the good fortune to come to Boston next month, we can arrange that better in a short conversation.

Trusting that the All Good will grant me that coveted blessing,
I am
Very respectfully
Anna Crawford.
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddyyou Will
She [?] Unclear or illegible  has booked you name for the next Class of the regular Collegiate Course
She Will discount $5100.00 will let you know one week previous to Com. [?] Unclear or illegible See Jour
 
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Chicago, Illinois The cause of Christian Science $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,241.51 in 2023. $180.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,834.72 in 2023.