Through the kindness of Rev. Mr Slade of this place, I have had access to your work “Science & Health”Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I am greatly interested in what now seems to me a mystery, & with the little light I now possess, believe if you were but to speak the word, I should be healed.

I have several friends who have been healed in answer to “The prayer of Faith”, but I have never been able to grasp it in a way to be cured although I feel I am improved in general health, I have always felt there was a science in all this, & a something beyond me, & now God has shown it to me, & I believe there is a cure for me, coming from God, through some one of His servants, I have little idea to whom it is best to go for this help, I am sure you are the best if you would, & could give me the blessing, But if you cannotAs Written:can not, please direct me to the most skilled person in the science near me, I see it is very necessary to have a capable healer, for there must be many who claim to heal, who are not really skilled.

A few days ago I only knew of Dr & Mrs SawyerEditorial Note: Silas J. Sawyer and Jennie E. Sawyer of MilwaukeeEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin fifty miles East of this place. I believe he is not teaching a class in the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. I have since heard of a Miss Brown, Mrs Sherman & Mrs Coursen in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois. This last person Mr Slade is acquainted with, & he says she has had great success for the past year, & he considers her the most able person he ever met next to yourself. I have also heard of Mrs Sargent & Millage in Oconto WisconsinAs Written:Wis, & a Mrs Hill (I think) who travels about. I know some of these are your students. Please tell me who you would advise. I would like to be healed soon as possible for two reasons. It is difficult for me to be absent from home long, & I cannotAs Written:can not go to any great expense, & then the sooner I was healed, the greater praise to the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, & glory to God, the giver of all. There are many suffering ones here who would no doubt gladly avail themselves of this cure could they see me cured, & then there are those poorer than I am, who have suffered long, to whom if I only possessed the power I would freely give in the name of the MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ. Is there any anyone As Written: one very skilled you could recommend who would come here?

I will describe my case as well as I am able, & if you feel you can have mercy on & heal me I shall bless you forever. I have a lateral spinal curvature which commenced