Accession: 545.58.015
Editorial Title: Emma Gray to Mary Baker Eddy, March 16, 1885
Author: Emma Gray 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 16, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma Gray on lined paper from Washington, D.C.
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109 1st St. N.E.
Washington D.C.
March 16th ‘85
My dear Mrs. Eddy:

When do you have your next class? I have two or three patients who wish to study, and I am trying to induce them to go to you. A Miss Sheldon, here – well – she is the one that Mrs Stewart mentions in her pamphlet, as the lady in Washington that she cured of a cold. She Miss S. has just been on to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts to study with Mrs Stewart and now intends teaching Metaphysics here. One of my patients is acquainted with her, and says she is an unusually bright woman, and she is rather inclined to study with her, but I urge them all to go to you, and the others have no other intention if they decide to study, So I thoughtAs Written:tho’t I wouldAs Written:wd find out when you have your next class. There is another teacher here a Mrs Salberg. I wish we couldAs Written:cd have a teacher from the college, I inquire out all these people hoping to find one on our side, but haven’t as yet. I have been asked, repeatedly, to teach, and decline, not having studied for that. Still I flatter myself I know a great deal more about Metaphysics than those who are teaching it here. Then again your price they object to, they say they can pay $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,647.00 in 2019. but when it come to 300.Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $7,941.00 in 2019. they say they can’t do it. There is a lady, friend of one of my patients, who lives in NewAs Written:N. York and who is very wealthy, hearing about the mind, cure, she went on to Boston simply to investigate it. & she is going there to study, I hope she will go to you as money is no object with her, and I wouldAs Written:wd like to be able to send someoneAs Written:some one to you who couldAs Written:cd pay, as I fear I shall never be able to make money enough out of this, to pay you the fortune that I wouldAs Written:wd like to.

I do not know as these people couldAs Written:cd go at once but I wouldAs Written:wd like to know when you have your next class & then I can tell them about it. I have had applications to turn gray hair back to its original color. I haven’t attempted it yet, for I thoughtAs Written:tho’t my faith wouldAs Written:wd be stronger if I knew it had ever been done. Has it ever been done? & wouldAs Written:wd you advise me to try it? Please give my love to all, & write soon

Lovingly yours
S. E. Gray.
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109 1st St. N.E.
Washington D.C.
March 16th ‘85
My dear Mrs. Eddy:

When do you have your next class? I have two or three patients who wish to study, and I am trying to induce them to go to you. A Miss Sheldon, here – well – she is the one that Mrs Stewart mentions in her pamphlet, as the lady in Washington that she cured of a cold. She Miss S. has just been on to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts to study with Mrs Stewart and now intends teaching Metaphysics here. One of my patients is acquainted with her, and says she is an unusually bright woman, and she is rather inclined to study with her, but I urge them all to go to you, and the others have no other intention if they decide to study, So I tho’tExpanded:thought I wdExpanded:would find out when you have your next class. There is another teacher here a Mrs Salberg. I wish we cdExpanded:could have a teacher from the college, I inquire out all these people hoping to find one on our side, but haven’t as yet. I have been asked, repeatedly, to teach, and decline, not having studied for that. Still I flatter myself I know a great deal more about Metaphysics than those who are teaching it here. Then again your price they object to, they say they can pay $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,647.00 in 2019. but when it come to 300.Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $7,941.00 in 2019. they say they can’t do it. There is a lady, friend of one of my patients, who lives in N.Expanded:New York and who is very wealthy, hearing about the mind, cure, she went on to Boston simply to investigate it. & she is going there to study, I hope she will go to you as money is no object with her, and I wdExpanded:would like to be able to send some oneCorrected:someone to you who cdExpanded:could pay, as I fear I shall never be able to make money enough out of this, to pay you the fortune that I wdExpanded:would like to.

I do not know as these people cdExpanded:could go at once but I wdExpanded:would like to know when you have your next class & then I can tell them about it. I have had applications to turn gray hair back to its original color. I haven’t attempted it yet, for I tho’tExpanded:thought my faith wdExpanded:would be stronger if I knew it had ever been done. WdExpanded:Would Has it ever been done? & wdExpanded:would you advise me to try it? Please give my love to all, & write soon

Lovingly yours
S. E. Gray.
 
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Boston, Massachusetts $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,647.00 in 2019. $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $7,941.00 in 2019.