Accession: 563.59.023
Editorial Title: C. F. Morrill to Mary Baker Eddy, March 17, 1885
Author: C. F. Morrill 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Calvin A. Frye  Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 17, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by C. F. Morrill on printed stationery from Chicago, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes notations in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin A. Frye.
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Handshift:Mary Baker EddyI’m my own publisherAs Written:pub. if you order 1000 or more will send them for 50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1322.46 in 2019.
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsweredAs Written:Ans Mar 20

I send you by this mail an articleEditorial Note: The March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean contained a letter from Rufus H. Bartlett, M.D. titled “A Divine Book.” It included his reflections on studying an ancient book of holy texts, given to him by a patient. This letter was reprinted in the April 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the “Inter Ocean”Editorial Note: Chicago Inter Ocean called the “Divine Book” By Dr Bartlett of this CityEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois. If you wish I will ascertain As Written: assertain more about it; having a feeling you would like to know about it yourself. Supposing it would be impossible to receive the book long enough to send it to you for perusal it may be you will think it of sufficient interest to you to come here sometime & see it.

Please let me hear from you with regard to it. I have also marked an article on “Science & Cancer”Editorial Note: The article “Science & Cancer” appeared in the March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean. It address the topic of different treatments for General Grant’s cancer. in same paperEditorial Note: Chicago Inter Ocean.

Would you be willing I should have the “Historical Sketch of Metaphysical Healing” printed here; I can have one thousand copies printed for twenty five dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $661.23 in 2019., which will be a facsimile As Written: faccimilee of the present book; Myself & others of the AssociationEditorial Note: This is the Chicago branch of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. would like to have them at a price that we could give away.

This will not interfere with the copyrightsAs Written:copy-wrigts as we will only use them as above named. As many as I sell at 25 ctsEditorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019. a copy will help pay the whole cost. We are very much pleased with your reply to Joseph Cook & Dr Gordon. Can we have the privilege of printing that here on the same terms? We are very anxious to make printers ink tell this year in behalf of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & at low rates.

I send you a copy of the discourse by A.T. Buswell C.S. “After The Transfiguration”Editorial Note: This was a sermon delivered by Buswell on December 21 at Hawthorne Hall and printed in the January 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. which is designed mainly for Christian people; to distribute in our Churches, to convince them that ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is not Spiritualism.

Expense, one centEditorial Note: $0.01 in 1885 is the equivalent of $0.26 in 2019. per copy; by the thousand.

Yours truly,
C. F. Morrill

I will send you the bill for H.S. as soon as I have time to get P.O. order.

C. F. M.

563.59.023
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Mary Baker EddyI’m my own pub.Expanded:publisher if you order 1000 or more will send them for 50.00Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1322.46 in 2019.
Handshift:Calvin A. FryeAnsExpanded:Answered Mar 20

I send you by this mail an articleEditorial Note: The March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean contained a letter from Rufus H. Bartlett, M.D. titled “A Divine Book.” It included his reflections on studying an ancient book of holy texts, given to him by a patient. This letter was reprinted in the April 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the “Inter Ocean”Editorial Note: Chicago Inter Ocean called the “Divine Book” By Dr Bartlett of this CityEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois. If you wish I will assertain Corrected: ascertain more about it; having a feeling you would like to know about it yourself. Supposing it would be impossible to receive the book long enough to send it to you for perusal it may be you will think it of sufficient interest to you to come here sometime & see it.

Please let me hear from you with regard to it. I have also marked an article on “Science & Cancer”Editorial Note: The article “Science & Cancer” appeared in the March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean. It address the topic of different treatments for General Grant’s cancer. in same paperEditorial Note: Chicago Inter Ocean.

Would you be willing I should have the “Historical Sketch of Metaphysical Healing” printed here; I can have one thousand copies printed for twenty five dollarsEditorial Note: $25.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $661.23 in 2019., which will be a faccimilee Corrected: facsimile of the present book; Myself & others of the AssociationEditorial Note: This is the Chicago branch of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. would like to have them at a price that we could give away.

This will not interfere with the copy-wrigtsCorrected:copyrights as we will only use them as above named. As many as I sell at 25 ctsEditorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019. a copy will help pay the whole cost. We are very much pleased with your reply to Joseph Cook & Dr Gordon. Can we have the privilege of printing that here on the same terms? We are very anxious to make printers ink tell this year in behalf of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & at low rates.

I send you a copy of the discourse by A.T. Buswell C.S. “After The Transfiguration”Editorial Note: This was a sermon delivered by Buswell on December 21 at Hawthorne Hall and printed in the January 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. which is designed mainly for Christian people; to distribute in our Churches, to convince them that ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is not Spiritualism.

Expense, one centEditorial Note: $0.01 in 1885 is the equivalent of $0.26 in 2019. per copy; by the thousand.

Yours truly,
C. F. Morrill

I will send you the bill for H.S. as soon as I have time to get P.O. order.

C. F. M.

 
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$50.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $1322.46 in 2019. Chicago, Illinois The March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean contained a letter from Rufus H. Bartlett, M.D. titled “A Divine Book.” It included his reflections on studying an ancient book of holy texts, given to him by a patient. This letter was reprinted in the April 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Chicago Inter Ocean Chicago, Illinois The article “Science & Cancer” appeared in the March 16, 1885, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean. It address the topic of different treatments for General Grant’s cancer. Chicago Inter Ocean $25.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $661.23 in 2019. This is the Chicago branch of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.61 in 2019.Christian Science This was a sermon delivered by Buswell on December 21 at Hawthorne Hall and printed in the January 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Christian Science $0.01 in 1885 is the equivalent of $0.26 in 2019.