I don't know where to begin I have so much to say and you so little time to listen= it is two months since I came here and the intrest Corrected: interest in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is growing daily– there are two seasoned- workers beside my selfCorrected:myself= next week I expect to comence Corrected: commence to teach a class and then I wish to organize an association- Can I take out a charter before Oct?

Mrs Eddy do you a teachers Corrected: teacher's certificate to your Normal students? I wish your advice in regard to a patient who was cured of a belief of deafness and other troubles but said he could not give up chewing tobaco Corrected: tobacco for he had used it 50 years- occessaionly Corrected: occasionally as I thought of him I treated there was no pleasure in chewing &cExpanded:et cetera and one day when in his garden he was taken dredfully Corrected: dreadfully sick and both he and his wife thought he was dieing Corrected: dying and after he was better turned to his wife and said Mother I believe that woman has been [?] Unclear or illegible  — with my tobaco Corrected: tobacco - and for several days he was sick every time he put it in his mouth he heAs Written:he kept trying until he now uses it- is it wise to treat him? you understand he has not had treatment since he was cured of his beliefs when I first came here only as I meet him occessionally Corrected: occasionally I give him a thought.- I have at present quite a number of cases of what are called obstinate beliefs one a Mr Davis who has a belief of paralysis of the optic nerves and has conculdted Corrected: consulted all the celebrated occulists in the cuntry Corrected: country and all pronnunced Corrected: pronounced it a [?] Unclear or illegible  hopeless case. Now comes the part I rather not write off Corrected: of A student of Mr B. Sherman attempted to teach a Mrs Lewis the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and altho Corrected: although he was here a year before I came very few people ever hard Corrected: heard her speak of Mental Healing and she took care of two people who have passed the belief of death since I came here - and gave them medacinCorrected:medicine - Now she and a good Baptist sister have begun to teach as they call it for $10.00Editorial Note: $10.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $311.34 in 2022. I hear – they told me they did not use the second VolEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy appeared in two volumes from the third through the fifteenth editions. as they did not accept the theology and a Mr Weaver who has been studying with them altho Corrected: although he will not own it to me told me he thought he could study out the healing and teach it as he had by inquiring found that Mr. Shermans Students did teach before they came to you– I have said every thing Corrected: everything to have him come to you for he claims to be a christian and wants to do a good worke Corrected: work - think he will write to you.